Pinaree Sanpitak: Fragile Narratives

In a selection of new paintings from the Womanly Bodies series, Sanpitak employs mawata silk to create dimensional and sensual forms that call to mind the feminine body. In these monochromatic paintings, a pearlescent background juxtaposes the natural fiber, deftly merging the aesthetic with the organic. Other paintings on view depict the recognizable forms of breasts and vessels, rendered in the artist’s distinct minimal style that reduces them to their most basic essence, continuing her captivation with the body’s wide-ranging potential across the sacred and profane. With a palette largely consisting of shades of grey, Sanpitak uses varying opacity to create depth in her compositions. In one such work, Body Drops (2023), subtle variations in tone and texture distinguish Sanpitak’s forms from the background; these breast-like forms are in turn covered by a shape reminiscent of those found in the Womanly Bodies series, rendered in pencil hatching.