This show is all smoke and mirrors, but in a good way. Prima Sakuntabhai plays with transparencies, reflections, and shadows to recapture their great-grand-uncle’s favorite haunts. The elder relative is Pridi Banomyong, a Thai immigrant who adopted revolutionary ideas while studying among the intellectual set in Paris. He returned home, organized the 1932 Siamese Revolution in Thailand, and then returned to Paris as a political exile.

Sakuntabhai has created surface rubbings of some of the Parisian establishments Banomyong frequented. They transferred them to long, clear vinyl sheets, which dangle from the ceilings like ancient scrolls. The rubbings are faint on their translucent surface, and more visible as rippling shadows onto the floor, morphed and skewed like the mind’s eye piecing together a memory.

Blurred imagery repeats in “Maps of Paris,” which Sakuntabhani constructed in collaboration with their friend, Manop Buranapramest. A giant television hangs over plexiglass; instead of craning one’s neck to see the screen, you appear in its reflection. This eerie image is known as a “Pepper’s Ghost,” a parlor trick that dates back to the Victorian era. It partially blocks the projection of a video essay made up of annotated screen recordings. Sakuntabhai takes much of their journey via Street View, tracing Pridi’s flaneur-like jaunts in the uncanny realm of Google Maps. It’s just another funhouse illusion, updated for today’s modern technology.

We must trust Sakuntabhani’s claims that Pridi shaped Thai democracy because there are no monuments to the revolutionary, despite his infamy. I wondered if Pridi even existed at all, as his mythos can only be viewed through a haze of shadows and refractions.