Sorawit Songsataya
b. Chiang Mai, Thailand
Lives and works in Aotearoa
Sorawit Songsataya
Light years 2022
Two-channels digital animation 3D holographic fan 08:00 min (loop)
500 x 500 mm
Sorawit Songsataya holds an MFA from University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts (2013) and has a BDES in Visual Communication from Unitec Institute of Technology (2010). They currently reside in Ōtepoti Dunedin as the 2022 Frances Hodgkins Fellow.
Sorawit Songsataya,
Nirun, 2023
installation view: Hocken gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Sorawit Songsataya,
Nirun, 2023
installation view: Hocken gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Sorawit Songsataya
Comfort zone (still), 2021
Single-channel color HD-video with sound, 10:00 min.
Voice by Awa Puna (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa). With acknowledgement to mana whenua of Kāti Mahaki ki Makaawhio, Poutini Ngāi Tahu as the kaitaki of this takiwā where the kōtuku were filmed.
Sorawit Songsataya
Offspring of Rain (still), 2019
Single-channel colour HD-video with sound, 10:00 min
Sound by Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
Recent Solo Exhibitions
- Nirun, Hocken Library, Ōtepoti Dunedin, 2023
- Stilt House, Robert Heald Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2022)
- Homefire, Paludal Art Gallery, Ōtautahi Christchurch (2022)
- Secrets and Lies, SCAPE Public Art, Ōtautahi Christchurch (2020)
- Come up for air, The Lightship, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2020)
- Rumours (Mermaid), Govett-Brewster Gallery, Ngāmotu New Plymouth (2020)
- The Interior, Auckland Art Gallery Sculpture Terrace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2019)
- Offspring of Rain, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2019)
- Jupiter, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2019)
- Step-sister, Mikro Gallery, Zürich (2018)
- Starling, Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2018)
Sorawit Songsataya
Nirun (detail), 2023
Hocken gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Sorawit Songsataya
Nirun 2023
installation view: Hocken gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin
Sorawit Songsataya
Mnemosyne (still), 2022
Single-channel colour HD-video with sound, 09:48 min.
Sorawit Songsataya
Crown shyness (gif detail), 2022
Single-channel color HD-video with sound, 10:56 min
Readings
- Jane Wallace, Homefire; Exhibition by Sorawit Songsataya, Vernacular,(2022)
- Jane Wallace, Sounding Out Feeling in Offspring of Rain, Circuit, (2019)
- Chairat Polmuk, Portraits of Flowers, MoMA (2021)
- Esther Lu, Some Kind of Travelogue Visiting Jupiter at the Turn of the Fifth Age, Contemporary Hum, (2021)
Sorawit Songsataya
Comfort zone (still), 2021
Single-channel color HD-video with sound, 10:00 min
Voice by Awa Puna (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa).
Sorawit Songsataya
The Interior (detail), 2019
Installation View; Auckland Art Gallery North Terrace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Oamaru stone, fibreglass, polyester resin, acrylic lacquer.
Sorawit Songsataya
Comfort zone (still), 2021
Single-channel color HD-video with sound, 10:00 min Voice by Awa Puna (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa).
Sorawit Songsataya
Stilt House (detail), 2022
Oamaru stone, beeswax, organic soap, shells, dried plants and synthetic nails, 20 parts.
Recent Group Exhibitions
- Thresholds, City Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2022)
- Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (2022)
- nature danger revenge, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Ōtepoti Dunedin (2022)
- Otherwise-Image-Worlds, Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)
- twisting, turning, winding: takatāpui+queer objects, Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)
- Wild Once More, Silo 6 Project by Te Tuhi Contemporary Art , Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2022)
- Listening Stones Jumping Rocks, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington (2021)
- Thinking Hands, Touching Each Other, the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg (2021)
- Heavy trees, arms and legs, The Suter Art Gallery, Whakatū Nelson (2021)
- H e a v y t r e e s , a r m s a n d l e g s , C o a s t a l S i g n s , T ā m a k i M a k a u r a u A u c k l a n d ( 2 0 2 1 )
- The Turn of the Fifth Age, Taipei Contemporary Art Centre in collaboration with Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung (2021)
- Cherish TV, Cherish Gallery, Geneva (2020)
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, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Ōtepoti Dunedin (2018) - Soon Enough: Art in Action, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (2018)
Sorawit Songsataya
Heavy trees, arms and legs (2021)
Installation View; The Suter Art Gallery, Whakatū Nelson
Part of Potentially Yours, The Coming Community
Installation; Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
