There's a quiet puzzle waiting on the 3rd floor of River City Bangkok. Thai artist Munins is showing a solo exhibition called "Still On" at RCB Galleria 5, on Charoen Krung 24, and it runs until 15 November — a good excuse to pair an afternoon of art with a wander along one of the city's most characterful riverside streets.
Rather than painting the brain as a piece of anatomy, Munins treats it as the operating system behind everything we do: how we take in the world, store what matters to us, interpret our emotions and decide what to do next. The exhibition breaks that down into three core processes. "Emotion Encoding" looks at the way emotional experiences get recorded in the first place. "Signal Selection" examines how the mind decides what's worth keeping — a filter that matters more than ever these days. And the "Neural Pathway" covers how we see the world and make sense of what lies ahead.
The timing feels apt. Between cities, screens and travel itself, the sheer volume of information coming at us shapes how we perceive, remember and adapt. Munins' work follows that thread: everything around us enters our perception, gets processed and stored, and ends up defining how we understand the world and ourselves. If you've ever arrived home from a trip feeling overstimulated, this is an exhibition that speaks your language.
What makes it worth an hour of your holiday is the invitation to slow down. The show encourages visitors to pause for a moment, observe what's going on inside their own heads, and become more aware of these mental processes — even on days when we feel too tired or confused to know which way to turn. Standing in front of art and simply noticing your own reactions is a rare experience on a packed Bangkok itinerary.
There's one event to plan around: on Sunday, from 2pm to 3pm, Munins herself will lead an artist tour, walking visitors through the stories, ideas and details behind the works. Hearing an artist explain her own thinking beats reading a wall label every time, and it's included in a normal visit.
River City Bangkok is easy to fold into a day out. It sits right on the Chao Phraya River, so you can arrive by boat, browse the galleries and antiques shops inside, then walk to nearby temples, the old town or the creative bars and cafes springing up around Charoen Krung. For travellers who like their sightseeing with a bit of substance — and anyone curious about why their memory of a place differs from the photos — "Still On" is a small, thoughtful stop that costs little and lingers longer than expected.
