Prae Pupityastaporn

Biography

b.1981, Bangkok, Thailand
Lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand

In her paintings, Prae Pupityastaporn creates layered continuums of observation and memory. Drawing from the often-overlooked minutiae of daily life, she assembles an elusive catalogue of her material surroundings, transforming the latent and mundane into active vessels of emotional and environmental shifts. Interweaving streams of the subconscious, Pupityastaporn offers dreamlike insights into the flux and fragility of memory—both personal and collective. Deeply influenced by her physical environments, she draws upon her experiences living in Germany and Thailand, particularly responding to the reinventions of landscape in early contemporary German art, which she encountered during her studies. Her paintings demonstrate the shifting possibilities of shared emotional fabrics, proving how each of our complex internal states can colour 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.