Prae Pupityastaporn
Prae Pupityastaporn
Bangkok, Thailand, b. 1981
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Bangkok, Thailand, b. 1981
In her paintings, Prae Pupityastaporn produces layered continuums of observation and memory. She draws from the overlooked minutiae of daily life, building an illusive catalogue of her material surroundings. Deftly extracting from the latent and the mundane, Pupityastaporn transforms seemingly dull objects into active deposits of evolution: a showerhead, a wall or a rock acquires mercurial ability in her works, storing shifts of the emotional and the environmental. Intertwining streams of the subconscious, Pupityasporn offers dreamlike insight into the flux and fragility of memory, both personal and shared. Most influenced by her physical environments, Pupityastaporn synthesises her experiences in Germany and Thailand. During her studies in Germany, she was exposed to reinventions of the landscape genre in the region’s early contemporary art scene; the artist has since followed her predecessors in creating a pioneering visual vocabulary, establishing a distinct approach of distanced liminality. Her paintings demonstrate the shifting possibilities of shared emotional fabrics, proving how each of our complex internal states can color perceptions of the external world. She awakens a unique set of memories and feelings in each viewer, and quietly transforms those associations once again in her practice of retrieval and repatterning.
2015
M.F.A. in Painting Class, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf , Germany
2007
M.F.A. in Painting Class, Offenbach am Main, Germany
2004
B.A Applied Art, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
Education
2022
<Imagine The Ocean>, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand
2019
<The Perfect Day for Fishing>, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand
2016
<Dirty Snow Poesy>, Brand New 2016 Art Project, BUG Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Solo Exhibition
2023
<The Blue Hour>, Workplace, London, UK
2022
<HEXAGON>, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok, Thailand
2022
<Acquisitions>, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, National Art Gallery, Ministry of Culture, Bangkok, Thailand
Group Exhibition