2024.9.14sat - 10.20 sun

TOYAMAKANAZAWA

ARTISTS

Sareena Sattapon

  • EXHIBITION
  • EVENT

01/3

[Past work] Balen(ciaga) I belong, 2022. Installation view from CAF Award 2022 Selected Works Exhibition at Hillside Forum, Tokyo, 2022.

[Past work] Installation view from In the realm beyond spectrum at the Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo, 2024. Photo: Kioku Keizo.

[Past work] Installation view from My spirit will follow you at Eukaryote, Tokyo, 2023.

Sattapon draws inspiration from everyday life and her experiences as a member of an ethnic minority in Thailand. Her powerful installations and performances shine a light on social structures that are often hidden from view. At Go for Kogei, Sattapon exhibits the type of scaffolding used at construction sites together with a bag containing a family’s possessions after they were forced to leave their home. The work represents those who have lost their homes and livelihoods to natural disasters, disease, war, or economic upheaval. It simultaneously suggests that no one is immune from such a fate. Radiating color and light, the bag becomes a provisional source of strength until a new life can be built elsewhere.

EXHIBITION

IWASE AREA

I-1|Toyama Port Observation Tower

EVENT

Balen (ciaga) I Belong: Performance Art by Sareena Sattapon

I-12|Iwase Omachi Park

PROFILE

b. 1992 in Thailand. Sattapon received an MFA from Silpakorn University in 2018. Since 2022, she has been enrolled in the Global Art Practice doctoral program at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Her recent exhibitions include In the Realm Beyond Spectrum (Contemporary Art Foundation, 2024), My Spirit Will Follow You (Eukaryote, 2023), and Durational Space #2 (Lilith Performance Studio, Sweden, 2023). Past awards include the 2022 CAF Award for Grand prize.