GALLERIES: Pinaree Sanpitak On Printmaking In Singapore

STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery

10.29.2019

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“Pinaree is often called a feminist Buddhist artist, but she resists such easy categorization, preferring to let her work speak to each viewer directly, through the most basic language of form, color, and texture.” —Can Yavuz on Pinaree Sanpitak

Thai artist Pinaree Sanpitak is one of the most celebrated artists of Southeast Asia, with major exhibitions throughout the region. After beginning a printmaking residency at STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore in May of 2018, she unveiled the first body of work at Art Basel Hong Kong’s Encounters section this past spring, and is now featured in a solo exhibition at STPI. The exhibition, Fragmented Bodies: The Personal and The Public runs through November 3, 2019, with works that “present themselves as a series of playful provocations that bridge a sustained exploration of print and paper techniques such as calligraphy, etching, monoprint, and collage with new spatial and formal concerns,” says STPI. “Fragmented Bodies: The Personal and The Public suggests a constant negotiation and reconciliation between the self, cultural conditions and the environment, enabling contingency and fluidity to surface in the tracing of territories on both personal and planetary scales. Creating empathetic gestures in response to the vagaries of humanity and lived experiences, Sanpitak’s work brings us into deeper engagement with the world we inhabit.”

In this video from STPI, we hear from curators and collectors of Sanpitak’s work, as well as the artist herself discussing how STPI’s unique facilities combining papermaking with printmaking inspired this body of work.