A pair of Thai artists known for their absurdist streak have imagined a world where monkeys run the planet — and where humanity's leftovers are displayed like museum treasures. 'The Blurred Sandwich' at SV Gallery on Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Road brings together new work by Napatsakorn Nikornsaen (aka Anxiety Storage) and Saratta Chuengsatiansup (aka Uninspired by Current Events), curated by Pamaran Lowhavarakun and on show until 27 September. Admission is free.

The premise is pointed: in the year 7607 AD, apes rule Earth. The title, the curator explains, refers to the internet slang 'blurred' — a mix of cursed and blessed — and to feeling stuck right between those states. Napatsakorn's pieces imagine offices redesigned for simian occupants: a straight knife reshaped for a sharp beak, curved furniture for a hunched frame, and a sign reading 'We must protect small berry stops. Smell blood? Very close. Don't eat. More bad fruit rotten' in place of a standard warning sign. Saratta's contributions lean on local AI software and language games: one work lets monkeys boardcast as a corporate board of directors, while a 15-minute advert exhorts apes to persuade humans that bananas — not money — are what they truly need.

Standouts include 'Fem Follows Function', a swan skeleton made from aluminium-flavoured chicken bones arranged into a floral shape, and a 375-million-year-old extinct fish ancestor with both aquatic and land-animal features. Another room doubles as the 'Museum Of Post-Historical Artifacts', where future apes display everyday human objects — a garbage bag, a cigarette lighter, a fish bone — alongside invented plaques explaining how past peoples traded wire coils and coloured beads.

The show also features 'The Book Of Apes', a zine by a group called South East Park (750 baht a copy) offering tips on how monkeys can coexist with humans, plus curator- and agency-day advice on banana sourcing. Visitors can pose with 'Public Facing', a digital artwork of monkeys at a directors' photo-op.

Why should a traveller care? Because it's a sharp, funny, thoroughly contemporary slice of Bangkok's young art scene — free to enter, and a good excuse to explore the galleries and cafes around Sathorn and Naradhiwas. And while you're in the neighbourhood, the artists suggest a field trip of your own: Pata Zoo, the ageing animal house that partly inspired the show. 'Visiting Pata Zoo was a deeply depressing experience,' the curator says. 'The zoo is on the top floor of a mall; its enclosures were bare concrete without trees, soil or water.' A gorilla named Bua Noi, now 35, spent years living there before finally being moved out in 2024.

Some viewers have called the exhibition funny; others say it kicked in a sense of sadness after the initial laugh. Either way, it's worth the trip.