Sorawit Songsataya

A REAR WINDOW PROJECT

Sorawit Songsataya’s Mnemosyne evokes the erosion of memory and the ebbing of the natural environment through 3D animation mapping of point cloud. The way the fragments unfold, spill, and tumble across the screen, reassembling into recognisable configurations, highlights the transitory and subjective nature of past remembrances. Notions of memory are often bound to understandings and experiences of place. The artwork draws upon sites connected to the artist’s life. Ōtepoti Dunedin and Chiang Rai, Thailand, are linked to home and family, and re-emerge in Mnemosyne as dynamic compositions of domestic and external spaces.

Working across sculpture, installation, moving-image, and 3D animation, the Thai-born Aotearoa New Zealand artist navigates complex cross-cultural contexts and identities throughout their practice. Environmental and human relationships are also prominent features in Songsataya’s artwork. In Mnemosyne, the viewer is invited to contemplate these intersections of environment and personal identity and experience through the lens of memory.