Art Basel in Basel 2025

Natee Utarit, BUDDHA PALAZZO (a.m.) (installation view), 2024, Acrylic paint, screenprint and flocking on linen, 240 x 650 cm (5 panels). © Natee Utarit / STPI. Photo courtesy of the artist and STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore. 

 

STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery brings the works of two celebrated artists, Lee Bul (South Korea) and Natee Utarit (Thailand) to Art Basel in Basel 2025, spotlighting the print and paper works produced during their respective STPI residencies in 2018 and 2023.  

Lee Bul’s Untitled – SF (2023) series will be presented at the booth, which reference her immersive Souterrain (2012/2016) bunker installation. The prints appear reflective but are densely opaque, pointing to a fracture of utopian ideals.  Her STPI works extend her ongoing thematic inquiry, Mon grand récit (My Grand Narrative). This inquiry is also the subject of an upcoming survey exhibition, Lee Bul: My Grand Narrative, which spans the past four decades of her practice. The touring exhibition begins at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul in September this year, and is co-organised by M+, Hong Kong. 

At STPI, Natee Utarit concluded his six-year-long Déjà vu series, which explores the connections between the East and West. Through speculative histories imagining deeper exchanges between Greco-Roman and Buddhism cultures—such as Buddha travelling to the West—the artist explores urgent questions of identity and decolonisation. Utarit’s STPI works are accompanied by The Last Word (2019), one of the earliest works for Déjà vu, showing the series’ evolution through the years. 

Altogether, the presentation highlights Lee and Utarit’s critical interrogation of cultural narratives and knowledge systems—practices that strongly resonate in today’s global context, serving as provocations on how we can understand identity, modernity and representation.   

 

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