Puangsoi “Rose” Aksornsawang. Letters. Research-in-progress. 3–4 min sound excerpt. Courtesy of the artist
Date: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Time: 6.00PM – 7.30PM
Location: Mondrian Hotel Singapore, Jungle Ballroom, Level 3, 16A Duxton Hill, 089970 (Accessible from street level via Mirror Tunnel)
Puangsoi “Rose” Aksornsawang will share a short excerpt of sound and text that takes water as a site where personal stories intersect with public histories. This excerpt and ongoing research will inform a forthcoming artwork which explores Aksornsawang’s consistent engagement with water in her past projects. This artwork will incorporate original writing and sonic recordings in various locations and bodies of water, from Berlin and Singapore to the Nakhon Sawan (origin of the Chao Phraya River and the title of Aksornsawang’s first feature film).
Aksornsawang’s presentation will be followed by a conversation with TAF Associate Curator Wong Binghao (Bing) about her previous artistic projects, and her use of literary, filmic, and multimedia approaches to deconstruct the materiality of art objects and their disciplinary boundaries.
About TAF Conversation Series
Developed to manifest the foundation’s process-based and research-driven programming, TAF Conversation Series engages artists and their collaborators to respond, reflect, and shape TAF’s research concerns. Intently blurring the line between the work-in-progress and its finished form, TAF Conversation Series highlights the process and flux of artistic practice, where transformation is constant. TAF’s 2025 / 2026 research rubric is Materiality.
About the Artist
Puangsoi “Rose” Aksornsawang
Puangsoi “Rose” Aksornsawang (b. 1989, Bangkok) is a director, a writer and a scriptwriter. In 2014, she received the academic DAAD scholarship and completed her Master of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts Hamburg in 2018. Her debut feature Nakorn-Sawan (2018) premiered at the Busan International Film Festival 2018. The film won the Taipei Golden Horse’s Observation Mission for Asian Cinema Award and has screened at various international film festivals. Her films are an homage to our relationship with loss. Using moving images as mediums to not only tell stories, she blends fiction and non-fiction in an attempt to reconcile our relationship with the self.
Past works
The Velvet Kingdom. 2025. Bangkok. Written and directed by Puangsoi “Rose” Aksornsawang. Courtesy of Op Sudasna, Bangkok CityCity Gallery.
Puangsoi “Rose” Aksornsawang. A Draft of Dead Birds. 2024. Courtesy of Op Sudasna, Bangkok CityCity Gallery.
