For this iteration of ART021 Shanghai, Ames Yavuz will present a solo booth by Channatip Chanvipava titled Call Me By My Name. The presentation explores the fluidity of personal identity, shaped through physical dislocations and cultural migrations.
A Thai artist of Chinese descent and currently based in England, Chanvipava’s work explores memory’s mutability—how past moments, emotions, and experiences are reconstructed through the materiality of paint. His intuitive process is devoid of preliminary sketches or physical references. Instead, compositions of domestic spaces emerge from fragments of recollection, mentally incubated and expressed with gestural immediacy and highly textural surfaces. Autobiographical in origin, Chanvipava creates tender and intimate compositions that evoke a sense of nostalgia and universal resonance, inviting viewers to reflect on their own connection to place, time, and self.
Call Me By My Name marks a celebration of his dynamic and global experiences, and highlights his cultural heritage, by debuting his Chinese name at ART021 Shanghai and affirming his Thai name.