UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN (Sources) Helen Grace & Phaptawan Suwannakudt

We’re happy to announce the opening of our show at Cross Art Projects (April 11th - May 9th, 2026)

"It's no easy feat, nor a mere coincidence, for two people to meet, be destined to meet again, and then to truly do so. But will it be only a fleeting event, or merely something briefly noted in a diary?"

Until We Meet Again (Sources) is a dialogue between Helen Grace and Phaptawan Suwannakudt that charts shifts in gender roles across cultures — Australia, Thailand and Hong Kong — over a period of fifty years. This exhibition is a celebratory revisiting of Until We Meet Again จนกว่าเราจะพบกันอีก held at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) in 2025.

The exhibition is an installation-sculpture, composed of memory traces over these decades. The artists have each lived through wars and motherhood; destruction and creation. They are guided by serendipity and synchronicity and real and imagined intersections as they explore the times and spaces that have shaped their lives and their art practices.

The installation draws partly on these spatial experiences and partly on the stories of small lived moments set beside world histories and regional histories, that span Thailand, Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Cambodia. The artists dream of borderless worlds, just before fear and darkness begin to obscure the openness they seek. This historical and panoramic narrative is realised through spatial composition – comprising video screens and painted screens.

This new work emerged through a process of dialogue and exchange that included circulating images and translations as well as site visits. The narratives touch on the influence of popular culture and the flows of time and water—the Chao Phraya beside which Phaptawan was born in Bangkok Noi, and the aquaculture systems of Gunditjmara Country, where Helen was born.

On Gunditjmara Country, the artists visited cultural landscapes, meeting with elders and encountering aspects of Country together for the first tune in this volcanic plain, where ancient aquaculture systems were engineered for eel trapping and crop cultivation over millennia, they were immediately struck by a geological feature — Mount Elephant, a scoria cone formed by a volcanic eruption more than 30,000 years ago. The elephant in the landscape speaks to those who live with it, although many European setters failed to recognise the intricacy of Indigenous engineering present all along, in plain sight.

Both artists have returned to the landscapes of their childhood, accompanied by one another walking familiar paths and undertaking imagined water journeys to reimagine their origins. In Bangkok No and in Western Victoria, they reconnect with ancestors, landscapes, stories, and dreams. This exhibition brings together the practices of two established senior women artists, allowing them to extend their work in new directions. A return to source is always the beginning of renewal.

Until We Meet Again, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, August to November 2025