SONGS OF THE CITY: Michael Lee and Olivier PinFat (October 13 - December 31 2011 at H Gallery)

H Gallery is very pleased to announce an exhibition of two artists who explore the urban environment in radical contrast. Singapore-based Michael Lee creates cool, analytical renderings of lost, destroyed and impossible cities which examine these sites as sources of individual desires, fantasy and collective memory and need. Olivier Pin-Fat’s photographs of his adopted home of Bangkok are inflected by drug-induced visions, a profound sense of the animistic, and disruptions of the photographic surface. While Lee dissects ethereal knowledge of places and spaces, Pin-Fat registers the outer reaches of subjective experience. At some point, the works of both artists meet.

SOMEWHERE IN THE DISTANCE: Yvonne Hindle, Mit Jai Inn and Chat Jenchitr (September 8 - October 9 2011 at H Gallery)

H Gallery is very pleased to announce an exhibition that explores aspects of the contemporary significance of painterly abstraction. Yvonne Hindle is influenced by Taoist concepts of time and flux and paints with a baroque yet romantic aesthetic. Mit Jai Inn creates canvases of subtly symbolic shapes and with gently rendered geometric surfaces, sometimes double-sided. And Chat Jenchitr abstracts metaphors from Buddhist philosophy with an often dazzling use of color.

BODY BORDERS: Pinaree Sanpitak, a 3-part exhibition (August 6 - September 4 2011 at H Gallery)

Three of Bangkok's most established contemporary art venues are very pleased to announce an ambitious collaborative showcase of Pinaree Sanpitak's recent works. Two interactive installations and a series of paintings reveal new interests and developments in Pinaree's on-going exploration of the symbolic and experiential dimensions of corporeality.

The body - which has been a continuing focus in my work for the past 20 years - explores sensory experience and perception. Recently, my son’s interest in pursuing studies in fashion design has led me to look at the body through the ideas of adornment: How the body is epitomized or minimized. What matters to me is how the body becomes a site of transit, contemplation and understanding. The body - part or whole - ponders, wonders and challenges.