Photo courtesy of Reisig and Taylor Contemporary
Represented by Reisig and Taylor Contemporary
Dealer Contact: Emily Reisig (gallery@reisigandtaylorcontemporary.com)
saun@santipreecha.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
As an interdisciplinary artist, my work primarily lives in interstices and intersections, of the visual and aural, of the tangible and intangible, of image, language and sound, always ever-moving, ever in flux, grounded in the position of questioning, or rather the questioning of position, weaving a web from various disciplines and inquiries and working with and through material in order to sculpt, form and embody gestures of thought. I often work in questioning the relation of bodies, frames and systems, the body as frame, bodies as systems, systems themselves as organized body, a societal frame—a never-ending fractal ouroboros; the act of breaking myth being itself a form of myth-making.
I’m interested in each work being able to hold multiple perspectives, multiple stratum of ideas and material memories which aims to create a space within which each spect-actor (to reference Claire Bishop’s use of Augusto Boal’s term) can find themselves in dialogue—through translation as excavation. As such I’m often interested in questioning where ‘the work’ lies, whether in the concept, object, spectatorship, or perhaps, I’m inclined to think, in the triangulation of the three. And through each work, accepting and acknowledging our innate need to find and impose sense and meaning, thus creating symbols, myths and illusions, my aim is always to (to quote a translation of Adorno from his text on Alban Berg) ‘heighten the illusion to the point of transparency’.
SAUN SANTIPREECHA is an interdisciplinary artist from Thailand who works in both visual and aural mediums. His artistic route in both disciplines began simultaneously, studying privately with two Thai Silpathorn Award recipients for Thai contemporary artists, visual artist Chalermchai Kositpipat and classical pianist/composer Nat Yontararak amongst other tutors and mentors. In 2008 he moved to Los Angeles where he pursued a career in music composition for film, collaborating with artists from multiple disciplines including fashion and video games while also working independently on projects culminating in the experimental album Dandelye (2022). His compositional work in film, TV, and fashion has been screened in over thirty film festivals worldwide including the Cannes Film Festival as well as at New York, Paris and LA Fashion Weeks. He has also worked in numerous capacities in the music department for a number of composers including John Debney, Danny Elfman, The Newton Brothers and Abel Korzeniowski.
He had his debut solo exhibition as an artist in July, 2023 with his exhibition Dandelye—or, Beneath this River’s Tempo’d Time We Walk at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA. He will be having his first international solo exhibition opening February 29 in Rome, Italy entitled Per/formative Cities, A Nest of Triptychal Performances engaging with three novels by Italo Calvino. After that, he will be having his second solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary opening May 25, 2024.
His work has been in various group exhibitions in Incheon National University, South Korea, New York, and Los Angeles, and he continues to work with artists and specialists across disciplines.
He is currently based in Los Angeles, CA.