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Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya : What we hold in time’s tender keeping
What we hold in time’s tender keeping by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a meditation on migration, memory, and the enduring relationship between the human spirit and the natural world. Drawing from the artist's Thai heritage and informed by ethnographic research within diasporic communities, the work is a living archive of collective storytelling in the form of a cascading, featherweight canopy shaped in the silhouette of a Thai spirit house. At its heart is a hand-crafted cedar roof, featuring gables inspired by the ornately carved temple doors of the Phingbodhipakkiya’s ancestral home in Phetchaburi, Thailand. Reimagined in contemporary form, the spirit house becomes a symbol of transience and rootedness—an ephemeral home for those who carry their homelands within.
Woven throughout are vessels on loan from community members—objects that have sustained journeys across landscapes and borders—alongside hand-woven fans and baskets used for harvests, offerings, and daily survival. Constructed using matriarchal fiber techniques—including knotting, twisting, dyeing, and braiding—the canopy is evocative of hanging roots, gestures that carry spiritual resonance binding people across time and space. What we hold in time’s tender keeping invites visitors into a suspended grove where time slows and memories breathe—a space to honor what migration carries, what it leaves behind, and what it preserves through the tender act of remembrance.
Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, the Sunroom Project Space is an open call opportunity for New York-area artists to develop and exhibit a site-specific project as a solo exhibition. The 2025 applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals including Jordany Genao, a Dominican interdisciplinary artist and educator; Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles Morel, an artist whose practice unfolds performatively through creative experiences within the quotidian, and the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism at the intersection of creativity and healing; and Gugelberger.
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Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya is a Brooklyn-based transdisciplinary artist whose work spans sculpture, painting, public art, fiber and ritual. The daughter of Thai and Indonesian immigrants, her practice focuses on creating liminal spaces that facilitate healing and transformation. Through her work, Phingbodhipakkiya channels loss and disconnection into portals of renewal, amplifying marginalized voices and weaving together cultural identities, colonial legacies and personal histories. Her installations often invite audience participation, turning viewers into collaborators in the creation of living monuments. Projects include Time Owes Us Remembrance at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Thailand and Of Soil and Sky at the Brooklyn Museum, NY. Phingbodhipakkiya’s work is held in permanent collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She was a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a 2024 NYC Artadia Awardee and was an artist-in-residence with the NYC Commission on Human Rights. Phingbodhipakkiya earned a B.A. in neuroscience from Columbia University, NY and an M.A. in Communication Design from Pratt Institute, New York. Learn more about the artist at https://www.alonglastname.com/.
Photo: Jihe Peng
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