The trajectory of Pattanopas’s oeuvre suggests a concern with generating a sense of the human body in flux; a concern that links with Buddhist notions of impermanence while acting directly on the viewers senses.
Pattanopas’s sculptures are labour-intensive in their detailing of exterior and interior views of the human body. He works with disparate materials and intricate structures to create illusions of bodily spaces and depth.
Furthermore, Pattanopas’s largest sculpture to date, Porta-atroP I, treads a particularly provocative line between beauty and ugliness in terms of a seductive yet disturbing imaging of seemingly infinite corporeal passages that bespeak the human body as subject to endless change.
Be Takerng Pattanopas is a Thai-born artist and academic and currently an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture of Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University. He exhibits and publishes internationally and his recent exhibitions have been reviewed in Flash Art and Frieze.com.
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Be Takerng Pattanopas
