AMES YAVUZ, SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE at Art Basel QATAR 2026 Booth: M316
Vessels
Artists exhibited:
Pinaree Sanpitak
AMES YAVUZ
Gillman Barracks 9 Lock Road #02-23 Singapore 108937
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gallery's Multiple Locations :LONDON (1), SINGAPORE (1), SURRY HILLS NSW (1)
February 5 > 7, 2026
Balancing Act 24, 2024, Indian metal containers, mulberry paper, needle, 24 bases diameter 36 cm, variable;
Vessels, 2000, set of six monoprints, pastel on paper, 23.9 x 31.8 cm each, 33.5 x 41 x 4 cm each framed;
ABOUT ARTISTS : Pinaree Sanpitak
Pinaree Sanpitak (b. 1961, Thailand) is one of Asia’s most important contemporary artists. In the 1990s, her ground-breaking exhibition Breast Works marked the start of the artist’s reference to an emergent and defining iconography: the women’s breast, which Sanpitak has become renowned for. Over the last four decades, she has developed an enigmatic inventory of symbols distilling women’s bodies to their most elemental parts, expressed variously through vessels, breasts, eggs, and subtly curved profiles. Conflated with imagery of the offering bowl or a Buddhist stupa (shrine), Sanpitak has created a complex lexicon that weaves seamlessly between the sacred and the profane. Characterised by tenderness and ethereality, Sanpitak’s works are tethered to a captivation with her own body and womanhood. Her sensorial inquiries also reveal a keen sensitivity towards a range of materials, and she has produced an expansive and compelling body of work across diverse media and techniques including painting, collage, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance. Underpinning Sanpitak’s practice is an abiding fascination with the potentiality of the body, her own body as sensate space, her lived experience of the bodily as a woman and, more recently, the charged and often convivial space between and among bodies that her participatory works create. Sanpitak’s works have been shown in numerous museums and biennales. Her recent exhibitions include: Making their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, The Shah Garg Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum, California, & in New York, USA (2025-2024); Un Ciel intérieur (An Inner Sky), Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, Paris, France (2025-2024); Ocean in Us, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2024); New Large Scale Artworks, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA (2024); Bangkok Art Biennale (2023); The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, 59th Venice Biennale (2022); A Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing, Hancock Shaker Village Museum (2022); amongst others. An overview of her work from 1995-2013 was showcased in a solo exhibition, Collection +: Pinaree Sanpitak, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia (2014). The artist presented Hanging by a Thread at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013), a solo exhibition featuring her large-scale installation of the same title, which was subsequently acquired by said institution. Another large-scale installation, Temporary Insanity, was exhibited at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, USA (2012) and subsequently at The Contemporary Austin in Austin, Texas, USA (2013). At the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012) she showcased a large-scale installation, Anything Can Break, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She has also exhibited her works at Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (The Netherlands), National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, ILHAM Gallery (Malaysia), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (Japan), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Thailand) amongst many others. In 2007, she received the Silpathorn Award from the Thai Ministry of Culture, one of the top honours for artists in the country. Sanpitak’s works are included in the collections of over 30 institutions, including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA), The Phillips Collection (USA), Asian Art Museum San Francisco (USA), Chrysler Museum (USA), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (USA), Nasher Museum of Art (USA), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (Japan), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), Art Gallery of South Australia, Arter–Vehbi Koç Foundation (Turkey), National Gallery Singapore, Museum MACAN (Indonesia) and M+ (Hong Kong).
Vessel 1 & Vessel 3, 2000, charcoal, pencil, pastel on paper, 150 × 200 cm framed
For the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar, Galerie Lelong and Ames Yavuz are pleased to present Vessels, a solo presentation by Pinaree Sanpitak. Expanding her long-standing investigation of the vessel as both object and idea, this multidisciplinary presentation investigates the body, care, balance, and transformation. In the context of Art Basel Qatar’s theme of Becoming, curated by Artistic Director Wael Shawky, Sanpitak’s work proposes an alternate epistemology—one centered on the body as a system of sensing, adapting, and holding. Sanpitak gained recognition in the early 1990s for her iconic breast forms, and by decade’s end she had inverted the motif into a vessel, an evolution that broadened her reflections on the female self and motherhood into a wider investigation of the human form and of humanity. On view in Qatar will be two large-scale drawings, Vessel 1 (2000) and Vessel 4 (2000), each depicting a floating form suspended in a black field. These are important early drawings of a motif the artist would return to repeatedly in the decades to come, echoing the alms bowl used by Buddhist monks: a humble devotional object that receives offerings each day and represents interdependence, community, and impermanence. Complementing these is a suite of six monoprints on paper from her Vessels series (2000), each a subtle variation on the others. Also on view will be Balancing Act 24 (2024), a kinetic installation composed of twenty-four antique Indian water vessels, each poised atop a motorized plinth. These formerly utilitarian, colorful metal forms are reanimated through a gentle rocking motion. At the mouth of each vessel, a delicate stack of hand-dyed mulberry paper forms the silhouette of a breast. Their constant movement reflects Sanpitak’s belief that balance is not a fixed state but a dynamic condition.
For the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar, Galerie Lelong and Ames Yavuz are pleased to present Vessels, a solo presentation by Pinaree Sanpitak. Expanding her long-standing investigation of the vessel as both object and idea, this multidisciplinary presentation investigates the body, care, balance, and transformation. In the context of Art Basel Qatar’s theme of Becoming, curated by Artistic Director Wael Shawky, Sanpitak’s work proposes an alternate epistemology—one centered on the body as a system of sensing, adapting, and holding. Sanpitak gained recognition in the early 1990s for her iconic breast forms, and by decade’s end she had inverted the motif into a vessel, an evolution that broadened her reflections on the female self and motherhood into a wider investigation of the human form and of humanity. On view in Qatar will be two large-scale drawings, Vessel 1 (2000) and Vessel 4 (2000), each depicting a floating form suspended in a black field. These are important early drawings of a motif the artist would return to repeatedly in the decades to come, echoing the alms bowl used by Buddhist monks: a humble devotional object that receives offerings each day and represents interdependence, community, and impermanence. Complementing these is a suite of six monoprints on paper from her Vessels series (2000), each a subtle variation on the others. Also on view will be Balancing Act 24 (2024), a kinetic installation composed of twenty-four antique Indian water vessels, each poised atop a motorized plinth. These formerly utilitarian, colorful metal forms are reanimated through a gentle rocking motion. At the mouth of each vessel, a delicate stack of hand-dyed mulberry paper forms the silhouette of a breast. Their constant movement reflects Sanpitak’s belief that balance is not a fixed state but a dynamic condition.
ABOUT ARTISTS : Pinaree Sanpitak
Pinaree Sanpitak (b. 1961, Thailand) is one of Asia’s most important contemporary artists. In the 1990s, her ground-breaking exhibition Breast Works marked the start of the artist’s reference to an emergent and defining iconography: the women’s breast, which Sanpitak has become renowned for. Over the last four decades, she has developed an enigmatic inventory of symbols distilling women’s bodies to their most elemental parts, expressed variously through vessels, breasts, eggs, and subtly curved profiles. Conflated with imagery of the offering bowl or a Buddhist stupa (shrine), Sanpitak has created a complex lexicon that weaves seamlessly between the sacred and the profane. Characterised by tenderness and ethereality, Sanpitak’s works are tethered to a captivation with her own body and womanhood. Her sensorial inquiries also reveal a keen sensitivity towards a range of materials, and she has produced an expansive and compelling body of work across diverse media and techniques including painting, collage, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation and performance. Underpinning Sanpitak’s practice is an abiding fascination with the potentiality of the body, her own body as sensate space, her lived experience of the bodily as a woman and, more recently, the charged and often convivial space between and among bodies that her participatory works create. Sanpitak’s works have been shown in numerous museums and biennales. Her recent exhibitions include: Making their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, The Shah Garg Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum, California, & in New York, USA (2025-2024); Un Ciel intérieur (An Inner Sky), Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO, Paris, France (2025-2024); Ocean in Us, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2024); New Large Scale Artworks, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA (2024); Bangkok Art Biennale (2023); The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, 59th Venice Biennale (2022); A Spirit of Gift, A Place of Sharing, Hancock Shaker Village Museum (2022); amongst others. An overview of her work from 1995-2013 was showcased in a solo exhibition, Collection +: Pinaree Sanpitak, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia (2014). The artist presented Hanging by a Thread at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2013), a solo exhibition featuring her large-scale installation of the same title, which was subsequently acquired by said institution. Another large-scale installation, Temporary Insanity, was exhibited at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, USA (2012) and subsequently at The Contemporary Austin in Austin, Texas, USA (2013). At the 18th Biennale of Sydney (2012) she showcased a large-scale installation, Anything Can Break, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She has also exhibited her works at Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (The Netherlands), National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Art Museum, ILHAM Gallery (Malaysia), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (Japan), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Thailand) amongst many others. In 2007, she received the Silpathorn Award from the Thai Ministry of Culture, one of the top honours for artists in the country. Sanpitak’s works are included in the collections of over 30 institutions, including: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA), The Phillips Collection (USA), Asian Art Museum San Francisco (USA), Chrysler Museum (USA), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (USA), Nasher Museum of Art (USA), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (Japan), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Japan), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Australia), Art Gallery of South Australia, Arter–Vehbi Koç Foundation (Turkey), National Gallery Singapore, Museum MACAN (Indonesia) and M+ (Hong Kong).
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