ARTIST STATEMENT
Chanya Vitayakul’s practice explores the feminized and non-binary body as a porous site: one that absorbs, resists, and reconfigures the languages projected onto it. Working across sculpture, installation, and graphic design, Chanya blends personal narrative with material investigation to examine how the body is written, held, and sometimes violated by external systems. Chanya’s work is not about resolution, but about rupture and reconstitution. Their work encourages entry into shared spaces of discomfort and tenderness, where clarity gives way to slippage, and where the body speaks in fragments, stains, and residues. In this space, authorship is complicated; distributed between artist, viewer, and the materials themselves. Chanya’s work poses a quiet but insistent question of what it means to be seen, and to survive that seeing.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chanya Vitayakul (they/them, b. 2003) is a multidisciplinary artist from Bangkok, Thailand. Their work has been exhibited in New York, Rhode Island, South Korea, and Thailand, and has appeared in publications including Curatory Magazine, Divide Magazine, New Visionary Magazine, and the Survivor Arts and Writing Collective. Chanya holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and is based in Long Island City, New York.
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