Valentine Willie Fine Art is delighted to present Vasan Sitthiket’s second solo collaboration with Valentine Willie Fine Art entitled ‘Vasan’s Women’.

Women in various guises occupy a special place in Vasan Sitthiket’s oeuvre. Pictured alternately as either passive objects or active and powerful players shaping their own destiny, Vasan’s women are variously depicted as purveyors of sexual temptation, victims of the sex trade, complacent subjects of consumer-targeting propaganda, maternal givers of life, and metaphorical icons assimilated with mother-earth-mother-Thailand. Often viewed with tenderness and admiration by the artist, whether portrayed as young or old, whether shown as agents for good or evil, Vasan’s take on the opposite sex is personal and heart-felt rather than generic.

This exhibition is curated by Singapore-based, Iola Lenzi. She aims to look at Thai society through the prism of women as portrayed by Vasan Sitthiket. The women of Vasan’s paintings and 3-D works, examined as a whole, embody a complete universe reflecting the layered complexity and many contradictions of Thailand and indeed the region today. In an oblique manner, Vasan’s Women also endeavors to visually document the nuanced and distinct position and role of Southeast Asian women within wider Asia. Comprising over a dozen new works of painting and sculpture produced specifically for the present exhibition.