Pinaree Sanpitak The Roof

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Pinaree sanpitak the roof.

One of the four basic necessities of life is a place to live to sleep. And despite the seemingly literal title of the installation sanpitak is intentionally ambiguous as to what the canopy actually represents. Her work addresses motherhood womanhood and self by using the shape of breast to provoke the symbol of feminism and femininity. Her artistic practice revolves around the human body and form as a vessel of experience and perception.

New york ny 10821 floating above the winter garden the roof is a site specific suspended sculpture by thai artist pinaree sanpitak that celebrates collaboration and coexistence. Collaborations have become an important part of your practice. The roof is a composition of translucent canopies collaged up among the palm trees inserting a roof over the head fragile temporary warm. She attended the university of tsukuba in ibaraki japan and northern territory university in darwin australia.

Pinaree sanpitak is one of the most compelling and respected thai artists of her generation and her work can be counted among the most powerful explorations of women s experience in all of southeast asia. At the least a temporary surreal sanctuary. Pinaree sanpitak born 1961 is a thai conceptual and contemporary artist. An overview of her work from 1995 2013 was showcased in a solo exhibition collection.

Pinaree sanpitak the roof. The installation will be open to the public from today 4 december 2017 at the koh seow chuan gallery and when the light to night. Image courtesy of the artist and yavuz gallery. Her relational and conceptual practice has centred around the explication of aspects of human experience and sensorial perception.

The house is crumbling the latest installation by renowned thai artist pinaree sanpitak specially commissioned for the national gallery singapore s light to night festival 2018 is a visual and sensorial treat. In 2007 sanpitak received the silpathorn award for visual arts from the thai. It can be a roof but it can also be clouds she says. It s up to interpretation but i think both work with the larger idea of shelter if you go.

Pinaree sanpitak the hammock 2014 15 over 600 blown glass beads and stainless steel hanging position approximately 190 x 410 x 120 cm. A large scale hanging fabric installation the roof commissioned by arts brookfield was on view at the brookfield place winter garden in battery park city in new york usa 2017. Pinaree sanpitak at the sherman contemporary art foundation in sydney australia 2014. Her primary inspiration has been the female body distilled to its most basic forms and imbued with an ethereal spirituality.

The roof is composed of translucent canopies hanging among the winter garden palm trees that create a literal but temporary roof.