KANTEERA PETHRITH

Born 1978. Lives and works in Bangkok and Copenhagen.

Kanteera June Pethrith brings our attention to worldwide situations of complexity and disaster in her mixed media paintings. June combines dramatic news photographs, striking colours, and the ever-present persona of an elf like creation that she calls a ‘Goggle’; due to its fixed stare. The Goggle is an eerie and anonymous observer of events, a cartoon silhouette with elfin ears and a single eye. The mood of June’s paintings is up-tempo and ’Pop Art’ but also strangely unsettling. The images provoke many questions; does the Goggle represent us? Is it an impartial observer? A witness? A silent accuser? A practical joker?