I am a Thai Painter. Settled in Albania, I have developed my Art at the cross road between Asian and European influences. My painting is strong and straight forward, like me. I talk without artifices about women suffering, death, life, and love. It is about me, it is about the Human condition which is universal. Jee
About a Thai Painter in Albania
Jee is a painter from Thailand, living in Albania since 2005. Back in her homeland, very young she was determined to become a painter or a nun. What may seem as a contradiction, is no more but a proof of strong will and determination. For both activities require but the strongest of faiths. Buddha wanted peace of the mind with all things. And so kindred was Mother Theresa's spirit.
Jee took birth as a painter here in Albania, she painted her first canvas (a portrait of Jesus) for the Order of Theresa. An effort that got her through the first steps of self affirmation, in search of representation. She tasted the visual academics of analytical drawing, but only found her language through intensive autodidact work. She was encouraged and inspired by the one who became her mentor: Natasha Bega, a well known Albanian expressionist artist.
Drawing from within her memory and her personal history, she brings out raw and live substances of the human being and its condition. Her pictures talk about solitude, isolation, and even betrayal. And yet, she remains in an existential quest, and leaves much room to positive emotions, to a constructive and benefiting love.
The Other steps in her narrations. He is multiple, a cruel fugitive author, but also a generous and protective lover. Jee always talks about sharing, complicity or lack of affection. The thematic of life and death is recurrent, especially in relations to childhood and maternity. Through the other, she searches and finds herself. Life drama is never too far away. But she never lets excess invade her tales on the human behaviours. Her painting is a research for freedom.
Jee's brush marks her protagonists. They are sometimes distant, impersonal, diffused. They are also full and marked, and can belong as much to the world of dreams and myths, as of the inescapable frank reality.
This exhibition is Jee's dedication to Albania and all those who have supported her. It is her first, and although she will pursue her work at an international scale, Albania will remain her artistic Mother.
Gabrielle Birnholz
THAI EXPO at ZENIT Gallery, Tirana
From the 6th of December till the 20th, 2007, Jee exposed 48 paintings produced in Tirana within these last 18 months.
The opening of this event took place on the 6th of December, attracting fellow artists, intellectuals, journalists, friends and collectors.
The local press was enthusiastic. Such an event in Albania is a rarity. The press retained this journey from Asia to Europe, from spirituality to sensuality.
Zenit gallery is located in Blokus, Blvd B.Curri, after cafe Roma. Opening hours are every day from 11-13 and 16-20.
Number of Visitors since 13 December 2007:
Last update: 09 July 2008
Jee Sa-Ngiam, Thai Painter
Albanian press praises Jee's talent
9 of the main national Albanian newspapers praise Jee's exhibition underlining her journey from Thailand to Albania, from spirituality to sensuality.
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