b-side is delighted to present Wantanee Siripattananuntakul’s three-channel video installation Bodies of Force (2025–2026), opening 23 May 2026.
Filmed at Mount Merapi, Goa Cemara, and the Cemeti Institute for Art and Society in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, each channel consists of a single continuous on-site take beginning with the release of a coin from an elevated position. From that moment onward, a field of interacting forces shapes its movement. Spin, deviation, and friction arise through contact with volcanic terrain, coastal wind, and institutional ground. Duration is established at the point of capture rather than through post-production. Human action initiates the event, but does not retain authority over it.
Presented among the bustling commercial activity of the historic antiques street of Jalan Surabaya, the coin in Siripattananuntakul’s video no longer operates as a unit of exchange, but as a material body among other bodies. What appears as an action is not governed by intention. It is shaped by conditions that precede and exceed it.
Bodies of Force was produced in-residency with our co-presenters, Cemeti Institute for Art and Society, with support from the SAM Fund for Arts and Ecology.
Bodies of Force
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul
23 May – 28 June 2026
Presented in collaboration with Cemeti Institute for Art and Society
b-side
Pasar Antik Kios No. 9–10
Jakarta 10310
ARTIST
Wantanee Siripattananuntakul (b. 1974, Bangkok, Thailand) is a multidisciplinary artist whose dynamic practice spans video, sound, sculpture, and installation. Her work engages with complex social, political, and economic systems, shedding light on inequality and the ideological forces that shape everyday experience.
She earned her B.F.A. from Silpakorn University and later studied under Prof. Jean-François Guiton at Hochschule für Künste Bremen, where she was awarded the prestigious Meisterschülerin title in 2007.
In 2009, she represented Thailand at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Since then, her work has been exhibited internationally at leading institutions, including the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Museo MACRO (Rome), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (Chiang Mai), and Frieze Art Fair (London). Recent highlights include the 7th Anyang Public Art Project (South Korea), the Thailand Biennale (Chiang Rai), and the Art Explora Residency at Cité internationale des arts in Paris (2024).