Two Red Breasts

In Two Red Breasts, (2018), Pinaree Sanpitak emphasises the life-giving nature of the female form. Since 2001, the breast has been a motif that she has explored as a symbol of femininity and sensuality, as well as nourishment and sustenance. The work is also a contemplation of the aging female body, acknowledging its imperfections and recognising its fragility. Her work draws strongly from Buddhist philosophy in its spare aesthetic but also in its acknowledgement of the struggle between our earthly and spiritual selves. While her work might be interpreted as feminist, the artist reveals that a gender specific agenda is not central to her practice. Rather, her breast iconography underscores the embodied nature of human experience, in all its fragility and impermanence, that longs for the sacred and the transcendental.