Artist's statement
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul is a Bangkok-based artist working with installation and moving image. Her long-term practice connects political economy, interspecies relations, and cosmological inquiry.
Her sustained engagement with economic and ideological inequality is evident in works such as (Dis)continuity (2012), Living with Uncommon Value (2012), The Price of Inequality (2015), and The ‘End of History’ Will Not Come Tomorrow (2022). These concerns continue to shape her practice as political and social conditions shift.
Since 2013, Wantanee has developed a long-term collaboration with her African Grey parrot, Beuys. Initially engaging Joseph Beuys as a reference point, this relationship evolved into a sustained inquiry into authorship, animal intelligence, communication, and more-than-human agency.
Recent projects and exhibitions, including her solo exhibition Remnants of Fading Shadows (2025) at Art Center Silpakorn University, Bangkok, bring together works such as Making Shadows Speak, Gilded Silence, and The Web of Time. These projects examine ecological disappearance, multispecies witnessing, and historical memory, tracing how political histories and environmental transformation intersect.
Since 2025, she has developed an ongoing conceptual platform focused on perception, orientation, gravity, time, and planetary and cosmic relations. Grounded in writing, field-based observation, and experimental moving-image and installation, including her essay for Te Magazine and the Bodies of Force project, this research examines how human and more-than-human systems shape life and orientation, extending her earlier political and economic concerns.
