Wantanee Siripattananuntakul — Contemporary Artist

Her work is concerned with how life is shaped and oriented within forces that precede and exceed human perception. Rather than treating perception as something belonging to a subject, it situates life within conditions such as gravity, atmosphere, terrain, and time, through which movement and orientation take form.

Her practice traces a shift from political economy toward interspecies perception and planetary relations. Earlier works examined how ideological and economic systems organise social life. Since 2013, her ongoing collaboration with an African Grey parrot named Beuys has been central to this shift. Working across shared time and attention unsettles assumptions about authorship, intelligence, and communication, opening toward forms of agency that are not organised around human intention.

Recent projects engage multispecies witnessing, ecological disappearance, and historical memory. In works such as Bodies of Force, movement unfolds within fields of interacting forces, where control does not reside in any single body and intention is not the condition for action.

What is at stake in her work is not representation, but the conditions through which life takes form. By attending to forces that operate beyond perception, the work repositions life as shaped, oriented, and sustained within environments that cannot be fully known or controlled.