Pannaphan Yodmanee, the winner of the 11th Benesse Prize visits the islands

Benesse Art Site Naoshima, April 21, 2017
Pannaphan Yodmanee was born in Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand in 1988. She studied Buddhist Art as a child. Focusing on the relation between Buddhist teachings and humanity, her work portrays such universal themes as fear, loss, suffering, devastation, and the karmic cycles of death and rebirth. Combining traditional Thai art objects and contemporary elements, along with drawings and sculptures, she creates artistic spaces reminiscent of a spiritual world beyond a specific religion. Based in Bangkok, Yodmanee began exhibiting in the mid-2000s. In 2015, her work was showcased at the Thailand Eye exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London, and later at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.