Three Elegies. 2023. Artist Portrait by Chris Reisig.

Saun Santipreecha

Represented by Reisig and Taylor Contemporary.

Dealer Contact: Emily Reisig.

CV, Press

Exhibition Images and Recordings: View.

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RECENT EVENTS

+ Guest Speaker re: Keeping Beckett Live: Waiting for Godot Panel at the Geffen Playhouse. (November 12, 2024.)

<<Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney joins a group of esteemed multidisciplinary Beckett Interpreters in conversation.>>

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SELECT PRESS

+ “…These Things That Divide The World In Two… Exhibition Review by Thomas Symeonidis” (The Beckett Circle, November 28, 2024).

+ Top 3 This Week by Lindsay Preston Zappas [re: [O-I-RI-R] installation at the Wende Museum], (KCRW Art Insider, May 21, 2024).

+ Interview by Feargal Whelan, “Legibility and Excavation: An Interview with Saun Santipreecha by Feargal Whelan,” (The Becket Circle (The Samuel Beckett Society): May 22, 2024).

+ Interview, “Meet Saun Santipreecha” (CanvasRebel: May 20, 2024).

+ Interview (Les Nouveaux Riches: March 9, 2024).

+ Publisher’s Eye by Alex Garner (Artillery: July 13, 2023)

+ Interview: The Act of Questioning, LA-based Multidisciplinary Artist Saun Santipreecha (Li Tang: October 24, 2023).

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Working between disciplines and artforms, Saun Santipreecha investigates and (de)composes the systems, structures, stories, states, and sounds that build the space of body into the myth of a person or a place. By constantly questioning the position of a body in relation to its physical composition as well as its political, social, cultural, linguistic, and mythological conditioning or status, his work operates at the border between national, historical, and corporeal boundaries. As a temporary position split and displaced between observer, object, and subject, he rethinks the ethical or relational structure of bodies through looping and endlessly evolving compositions of (atonal) sound and sculptural structure. (The slippages and distortions of a body as a relational context coming between regulatory structures and drifting morphologies, multitudes and monads, provides an opportunity to reconfigure the possibilities of what it means for someone to relate to someone else (or somewhere else).)

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Bio

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. His artistic route in visual arts and music 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, 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.

Saun’s first institutional exhibition, [O-I-RI-R], is an installation in the East German Guardhouse at the Wende Museum (open April 27 - September 15, 2024). He had his debut solo exhibition, Dandelye—or, Beneath this River’s Tempo’d Time We Walk, in July, 2023 at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary. His first international solo exhibition, Per/formative Cities | A Nest of Triptychal Performances (curated by Camilla Boemio), took place February–March at AOC F58 Galleria Bruno Lisi, Rome. His second solo exhibition in Los Angeles at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary opens May 25. The exhibition is titled ...These Things That Divide The World In Two... and coincides with his participation at the 9th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society—Beckett and Justice—at California State University, Los Angeles. (He was invited to speak on the panel Beckett, Justice, and Thai Artist Saun Santipreecha in conversation with Beckett scholars Katherine Weiss and Feargal Whelan (2024).) In November 2024, he joined other artists in conversation with Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney on the occasion of Keeping Beckett Live: Waiting for Godot Panel at the Geffen Playhouse.

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.

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“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’.”

{Biographical text and quoted statement courtesy of the artist.}

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Past Exhibitions, Installations, Events

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- October 26, 2024. /Group Exhibition [Irrational Exhibits 13]:

Included work: Avant le deluge, après le rêve

Press Release:

+ Site.

Artist’s Text:

+ File.

- May 25 - June 22, 2024. /Solo Exhibition [Reisig and Taylor Contemporary]:

...These Things That Divide The World In Two...

Release:

+ File; Curate LA; Artillery.

Text:

+ Artist Installation Statement.

Supplements:

+ Essay by Saun Santipreecha, <…perhaps that’s what I am, the thing that divides the world in two…: Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable, relational modularity, and nationalism>.

Press:

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: May 23-29, 2024).

+ Interview with Saun Santipreecha by Whelan Feargal (The Becket Circle (The Samuel Beckett Society): May 22, 2024).

Documentation:

+ Checklist.

- April 27, 2024 - September 15, 2024. /Institutional Installation [The Wende Museum]:

[O-I-RI-R]

Institutional Installation.

Institution: Wende Museum (Culver City, CA).

Position: East German Guardhouse (in the Museum’s garden).

Release:

+ Statement.

Press:

+ <<Top 3 This Week>> (KCRW Art Insider: May 21, 2024). [re: [O-I-RI-R]. Current Installation at the Wende Museum].

Documentation:

+ Installation Manual and Documents.

- February 29 - March 15, 2024. Off-Site. Solo Exhibition.

PER/FORMATIVE CITIES | A Nest of Triptychal Performances

Curator: Camilla Boemio

Presenter: Reisig and Taylor Contemporary [with objet A.D]

Location: AOC F58 Galleria Bruno Lisi, Rome

Release:

+ File; Artforum.

Press:

+ Interview (Les Nouveaux Riches: March 9, 2024).

+ Feature (Artribune, March 4, 2024)

+ <<Una ragnatela di performances tripticali>> (Juliet: February 23, 2024)

+ Feature (exhibart: February 28, 2024).

Preliminaries:

+ Trailer 1; Trailer 0.

- September 30 - October 4. Benefit Salon.

Benefit 2023 | Chords2Cure

Emma Gray, Daniela Soberman, Ari Salka, Erica Everage, Kento Saisho, Keywan Tafteh, Sinclair Vicisitud, Suwichada Busamrong-Press, Saun Santipreecha, Rudik Ovsepyan, objet A.D, Chris Reisig & Leeza Taylor.

Documentation:

+ Checklist

Recordings

+ Exhibition Videos

Press:

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: September 28-August 4, 2023).

- July 1 - July 29, 2023. Debut Solo Exhibition:

Dandelye—or, Beneath this River’s Tempo’d Time We Walk

Documentation:

+ Limited Edition Print Catalogue

+ Digital Catalogue

+ Checklist

+ Poetry Reading (Text)

+ Woven Histories (Performance Text)

Recordings:

+ Exhibition Videos

+ Woven Histories (Second Movement)

+ Let the Wind Speak (Sound Sculpture)

Press:

+ Publisher’s Eye by Alex Garner (Artillery: July 13, 2023)

+ Interview: The Act of Questioning, LA-based Multidisciplinary Artist Saun Santipreecha (Li Tang: October 24, 2023).

+ Interview with Phillip Johnson (The Art & The Artist: August 13, 2023)

+ Li Tang (July 18, 2023)

+ Film by L.A. Art Documents (July 20, 2023)

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: June 29-July 6, 2023)

+ Film by EMSARTS (July 4, 2023)

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Inquire for Information, Image Details, or Status of Exhibited Works:

gallery@reisigandtaylorcontemporary.com

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