Eternal Game (2024) Site-specific participatory installation at Buranakit Rice Mill, Suphanburi

In Eternal Game, the artist transforms the rice storage wall of the Buranakit Rice Mill into a tennis Knock Board. The work evolves from an earlier painting, Eternal Wall (2020), which explored themes of labor and domestic space embedded within the architecture of suburban tennis courts.

The sounds heard from the wall are not produced by active play, but are pre-recorded tennis ball impacts captured at a now-defunct housing estate where the homeowners’ association had collapsed. These echoes become most noticeable in stillness: when no one is playing and silence settles in, the wall begins to “speak” through its rhythmic pulse, evoking something like a heartbeat from within its structure.

The installation invites viewer participation: audiences are challenged to strike a tennis ball against the wall, attempting to match a specific number of hits set by the artist. In this exchange, physical exertion meets sonic memory inviting interpretation, repetition, and resonance between body, space, and time.