Over the period of three decades, Sanpitak’s practice has expanded from painting and collage to other media, spanning across sculpture, installation, print and participatory projects. Undergirding this diverse practice is her consistent engagement with the human body as a key thematic subject and iconography. Distilled into primal and minimal forms, the body is always present corporeally, viscerally occupying space. In some works, it is represented as a corpus — two curving lines alluding to a torso without beginning or end. Mostly, the body is fragmented into exposed and disjoined parts, with the female breast as a recurring motif. The sensuality of her works, the term speaking to both of the erotic and the sensorial, is derived from this delineation of the body as unconcealed and uncontainable.

In Bodily Space: Confessed and Concealed, the artist returns to her original medium of painting and collage. The expressive force of these works is found in the complex interplay of form, line, colour, and texture. Together, they reflect Sanpitak’s present state of mind, revealing a wider, more tender and more profound treatment of the body as subject and form.

Venue: Yavuz Gallery, Gillman Barracks, 9 Lock Road #02-23, Singapore 108937

Opening Hours: 11am to 7pm (Tue to Sat); 1pm to 5pm (Sun). Closed on Mondays and Public Holidays

When: 12 Oct - 17 Nov 2019,

By: Ames Yavuz