Taiki Sakpisit
Maelstrom - วังนำ้วน
2026
Motorised sound sculptures on 4.8m circular rail, 10.2-spatialised sound composition on 14 speakers, synchronised lights and fog
23:00 mins, looped

Artist: Taiki Sakpisit  
Sound: Yasuhiro Morinaga
Sound designer: Worramet Matutamtada 
Technical Lead: DDMY Studio
Robotics Engineer: Prakpoom Eakmaturapoj 

Spirits Melt to Flesh
5 June 2026 - 4 October 2026
Bangkok Kunsthalle
Curated by Sam I-shan

Site-responsive moving image, sound, sculptural and photographic installations by eight Asian artists transform the raw spaces of the Bangkok Kunsthalle through variations of light and darkness, and reverberations of sound and voices in dialogue. The building becomes a container for utterances, a site of encounter for the stories that circulate through its spaces, even as viewers are made aware of their own perceiving bodies in time. The works consider representations of regional histories and personal subjectivities by juxtaposing the bodily with the otherworldly, and excavating myths and minor narratives. They reflect the contemporary concerns of a world in transition through their intimate portraits of real and imagined beings, and speculations on alternative forms of intelligence. This exhibition reflects on how lives and societal realities are continually shaped by forces that evade full apprehension, recalling Al-Ghazali’s proposition: “This visible world is a trace of that invisible one, and the former follows the latter like a shadow.”

Curator Biography
Sam I-shan (Singapore) is an independent curator with an interest in moving image, photography, and art and politics. She was previously curator at National Gallery Singapore (NGS), Singapore Art Museum (SAM) and Esplanade Visual Arts. Exhibitions include "Spirits Melt to Flesh" (Bangkok Kunsthalle, Thailand), "Chronotopia" (Asia TOPA, Australia), "Nowhere Here" (Singapore International Photography Festival), "Sim Chi Yin: One Day We’ll Understand" (Rencontres d'Arles, France), "Cao Fei and Georgette Chen: At Home in the World" (both NGS, Singapore), and "Afterimage: Contemporary Photography in Southeast Asia" (SAM, Singapore). At Esplanade, she curated and managed new commissions and site-specific exhibitions, working with a range of regional artists. At SAM, she headed moving image initiatives and co-programmed the annual Southeast Asian Film Festival. She also programs for film festivals, specializing in artist films and video, and Southeast Asian experimental cinema, working with the Singapore International Film Festival, Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+ Hong Kong, Asian Film and Video Art Forum at MMCA Korea, Art SG Film, and Videoex Experimental Film and Video Festival Zurich. Her essays have been published in books, journals and exhibition catalogues. She lives and works in Singapore and Cambodia.

Artists
Anthony Chin, Daniel Hui, HeeSue Kwon, Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin, Lieko Shiga, Soe Yu Nwe, and Taiki Sakpisit