After having wowed people in London, New York, Los Angeles and Beijing with her adorable felt works, highly acclaimed British artist Lucy Sparrow will give a Bangkok debut exhibition at the Standard, Bangkok Mahanakhon, Narathiwat Ratchanakharin Road, for one month.
Kicking off today, "Add To Cart" transforms the hotel's lobby, The Parlor and Tease into a bustling Thai street food market with every snack on display crafted entirely from felt. The exhibition will wrap up on May 5.
For this collaborative project that took the artist several months to research, create and install, the hotel takes a deep dive into traditional Thai flavours that evoke nostalgia by recreating fond childhood memories through street food's association with good, simple times.
Taking a trip down memory lane, visitors will find carts overflowing with every Thai street food staple imaginable -- from moo ping (grilled BBQ pork) and Isan pork sausages to kanom krok (coconut rice pancake) and cotton candy and tropical fruits cart -- all hand-stitched in the inimitable Lucy Sparrow style.
Sparrow took the art world by storm with the opening of her fully-stocked felt Cornershop installation in London's East End in 2014. Two years later, she was commissioned by the BBC to recreate the Crown Jewels in felt to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's official 90th birthday.
Her first solo show in the US, "The Convenience Store", a New York bodega stocked with 9,000 felted artworks, was an instant hit. So was "Sparrow Mart", a fully-felted supermarket in downtown Los Angeles, which was complete with 31,000 hand-painted works.
In 2019, Lucy opened her debut museum exhibition, "Lucy Sparrow's Felt Imaginarium", at M Woods in Beijing, China. She returned to the US early last year with "Tampa Fresh Foods", a 279m² hypermarket filled with over 50,000 felt groceries, that went viral on TikTok, creating hour-long queues and global coverage.
Visit standardhotels.com/bangkok or call 02-085-8888.
