Represented by Reisig and Taylor Contemporary

Dealer Contact: Emily Reisig (gallery@reisigandtaylorcontemporary.com)

saun@santipreecha.com

— a statement-en-process

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 (b. 1989, Thailand) is an interdisciplinary artist, composer, and writer who works across and between disciplines and art forms, often at the intersection between image, language, sound and body. He has had two solo exhibitions at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary in Los Angeles, CA (Dandelye—or, Beneath this River’s Tempo’d Time We Walk (2023), and …These Things That Divide The World In Two… (2024)) as well as a solo exhibition in Rome, Italy (Per/formative Cities, A Nest of Triptychal Performances (2024)). He recently had his first institutional commission for a sound and sculpture installation in the ADN East German guardhouse at the Wende Museum (2024). His work has also been in various group exhibitions in South Korea, New York and Los Angeles. 

His compositional work in film, television, and fashion—many of which he has worked on under the pseudonym S. Peace Nistades—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 was invited to speak at the 9th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society—Beckett and Justice—at California State University, Los Angeles on the panel Beckett, Justice, and Thai Artist Saun Santipreecha in conversation with Beckett scholars Katherine Weiss and Feargal Whelan (2024) and has also served as an Industry Mentor at Musician’s Institute (2020-2022).

He is currently based in Los Angeles and continues to work with artists and specialists across disciplines including film, fashion, and performing arts.