Butterfly & Fish at Bangkok’s SŌKO until November 24: Pi-near and papeterie bring two worlds together
The duo exhibition connects a butterfly and a fish through different creative approaches. Two organiser images offer clues, while Wednesday closures need planning.
Pi-near and papeterie’s first duo exhibition, Butterfly & Fish, runs from October 29 to November 24, 2026, at SŌKO in Bangkok. The two creators place a butterfly and a fish within a shared journey, exploring departure, transition and growth through different environments and ways of making. Located on Sukhumvit Soi 32, the exhibition offers a reason to slow down for readers interested in illustration, storytelling on paper and the details of a composition.
A conversation begins with differences
The exhibition does not make the two creatures identical. Butterflies and fish inhabit different spaces and move in different directions; the organiser uses that contrast to introduce a meeting between the artists’ subjects, materials and processes. Pi-near is introduced through images and stories, while papeterie’s practice involves paper cutting. Visitors can consider how a composition establishes boundaries and how lines meet forms, without rushing to assign every motif a single symbolic meaning.
A duo show also offers a way to compare: first consider each artist’s language, then look for what they share. A journey can mean more than a route from a starting point to a destination; an unfamiliar encounter may gradually change how we see. This is one reading suggested by the exhibition’s theme, rather than a claim that every work tells the same story. Nor should an artist’s biography automatically become an identity assigned to a figure in an image.
From a paper object on a tree stump to two connected realms
One publicity photograph supplied by the organiser places a paper object printed with the exhibition title, a butterfly and a fish on a tree stump. Brown wood grain and patches of light set the fine drawn lines against a physical environment. The words “story & visual by pi-near” are part of the original image. It suggests the scale of reading and turning pages, but the photograph alone does not establish that books are sold at the exhibition, or identify a paper stock, printing method or edition size.
A second artwork image divides its composition into yellow sky, green hills and blue water. A butterfly occupies the upper area, an orange-yellow fish form sits underwater, and flowers and coral-like shapes grow around the edges. Rather than entirely isolated islands, the two realms feel connected through colour and recurring details. These are observations about the official image’s composition, not biological species identifications or conclusions about an object’s dimensions or material recipe.
Yellow sky, green hills and blue water form two connected realms in the artwork image.
Planning a visit to Sukhumvit 32
SŌKO is on Sukhumvit Soi 32 in Bangkok’s Klong Tan, Klong Toei area, postcode 10110. The event listing names BTS Thong Lor as a transport reference. Wednesday is the closing day, and opening begins at 11am. Different event listings give closing times of 6pm and 7pm; anyone arriving in the evening should confirm that day’s hours with the venue instead of treating general venue information as a guarantee for this exhibition.
A useful viewing approach is to begin with the broad colour fields and the upper-and-lower arrangement, then move closer to the distances between lines, motifs and shapes. The two publicity images provide clues, while the actual display determines what visitors encounter. The exhibition continues until November 24, and opening arrangements should be checked again before setting out. Its interest lies in placing different creative approaches alongside each other: keeping the butterfly a butterfly and the fish a fish makes their encounter easier to notice.
