Art Basel Hong Kong week sold Wit Pimkanchanapong’s maze as a lounge privilege: Life Chapters, commissioned by Chubb Life Hong Kong near the Hall 1D entrance at HKCEC in late March 2026. The fair pass was the filter. The interesting news in August is that the same soft-architecture intelligence now sits on a Sai Ying Pun sidewalk.
Infinite Maze 189, the fourth edition of the series, occupies the ground floor of PROJCT at 189 Queen’s Road West. Book a free Eventbrite slot, walk in Tuesday through Sunday, and pull the cord yourself. Read Why Art Basel Hong Kong Owns March if you still need the fair’s calendar logic; this is the neighbourhood version that does not ask for a badge.
“A maze is also a very literal representation of life, which isn’t linear or determined. There are many entry points and many hidden possibilities. You walk forward, encounter a dead end, things shift, and you find a new path.”
Wit Pimkanchanapong, speaking with Art Basel ahead of Life Chapters, March 2026
The Grid That Rewrites Itself
Grey square panels hang from the ceiling in staggered heights. Some lift to open a path of light; others drop and seal the route you thought you had. A cord triggers sound and motion at once. The grid recalibrates around whoever is inside it. Access is plural on purpose: multiple entry points, no single correct start.
PROJCT describes the studio’s current address as a former supermarket on Queen’s Road West, which is useful context for how the room behaves. You still feel the street through the glass: dried goods, signage, the ordinary West Island sidewalk. The maze borrows that density rather than pretending to be a white cube.
Wit, born in Bangkok in 1976, trained in architecture at Chulalongkorn University and later took a master’s in visual communication in the UK. He has spent years testing what he calls soft architecture: temporary, modular systems that shift with human presence. The maze form has occupied him since 2021, after a Buddhist maze ceremony near Thailand’s northern border. Earlier editions have appeared in Bangkok and elsewhere in the region; Life Chapters at Art Basel was the insured-lounge chapter. Sai Ying Pun is the walk-in chapter.
Practical Notes for a Tuesday Afternoon
Listings commonly place the run through late August 2026, with hours around Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00–20:00. PROJCT’s own projects page has also shown an earlier summer window; treat the calendar as something to confirm on projct.co or the Eventbrite listing before you diary a visit. Admission is free with a timed slot. Closest MTR is Sai Ying Pun, Exit A1, then a short walk along Queen’s Road West.
If you want institutional gravity the same trip, keep M+ for a separate West Kowloon half-day rather than forcing the harbour crossing after the maze. Para Site in Quarry Bay is the stronger non-profit pair when you want another artist-led room without fair-week noise. Shenzhen's Museums Are Rewriting the Hong Kong Weekend is the northbound weekend if your calendar already points across the border.
We'll be blunt: most fair-week installations evaporate when the carpet comes up. This one stayed in the neighbourhood long enough to be useful. Soft architecture, in Wit’s sense, is only meaningful when someone can still walk through it on an ordinary Tuesday.
