Image: Dunedin Public Art Gallery, London
Dunedin Public Art Gallery has added Sorawit Songsataya’s 'Mnemosyne' to its 2026 Rear Window Moving Image Programme, presenting the 2022 work in the gallery’s Rear Window until 18 October 2026. The gallery describes the piece as the penultimate work in the year’s moving-image series, and the accompanying exhibition page identifies it as a Rear Window Project.
The work uses 3D animation mapping of point cloud to explore the erosion of memory and the shifting condition of the natural environment. According to the gallery text, fragments unfold, spill and tumble across the screen before reassembling into recognisable configurations, a process that underlines the transitory and subjective nature of remembrance. The work is presented in single-channel colour HD video with sound and runs 9 minutes and 48 seconds.
'Mnemosyne' draws on places connected to the artist’s life, bringing Ōtepoti Dunedin and Chiang Rai, Thailand, into the work as sites linked to home and family. On the exhibition page, these locations re-emerge as dynamic compositions of domestic and external spaces. The gallery says the viewer is invited to contemplate intersections of environment and personal identity through the lens of memory.
Songsataya, who is Thai-born and works across sculpture, installation, moving-image and 3D animation, is currently living and working in Bangkok. The gallery also notes that Songsataya is one of four nominees for the 2027 Walters Prize and the recipient of the Creative New Zealand 2027 Berlin Visual Arts Residency, where they will spend 12 months at the International Studio Programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
The exhibition text adds another layer of local context by noting that Songsataya spent time living in Ōtepoti Dunedin in 2022 as the University of Otago’s Frances Hodgkins Fellow. In describing the practice more broadly, the gallery frames Songsataya’s work as one that navigates complex cross-cultural contexts and identities, while also keeping environmental and human relationships at the forefront.
The Rear Window presentation sits within Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s wider 2026 programme, which has included a range of exhibitions and events across the year. For 'Mnemosyne', the gallery has kept the focus on the work itself and its place in the moving-image series, with the installation remaining on display until 18 October 2026.
