Artist Profile

www.jee-thai-artist.comJee Sangiam

Jee Sa-Ngiam, artist from Thailande 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.