
Pinaree Sanpitak b. 1961
Rooted, 2023
Acrylic, feather, and fabric on canvas
63 x 57 ⅛ in (160 x 145 cm)
© Pinaree Sanpitak, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York
In Rooted, Pinaree Sanpitak moves fluidly between figuration and landscape, evoking the body as terrain and the terrain as body. Two pale, breast-like forms anchor the composition, their soft contours...
In Rooted, Pinaree Sanpitak moves fluidly between figuration and landscape, evoking the body as terrain and the terrain as body. Two pale, breast-like forms anchor the composition, their soft contours and trailing lines suggesting both rootedness and reach—simultaneously corporeal and botanical. Set against a muted gray ground punctuated by rectangles of color and texture, the forms appear to inhabit a space that is part interior, part environment. The use of fabric and embedded feathers introduces subtle tactility and fragility, reinforcing the work’s quiet tension between solidity and transience. Hovering between abstraction and recognition, Rooted invites reflection on the interdependence of form and ground, body and world, presence and place.