In contemporary society, human relationships are increasingly shaped by distance-social, economic, and emotional. We move across cities, countries, and systems of labor, often without noticing the people who make our lives possible. In the process, we begin to overlook the value of one another.

“You and me and everyone we have met” explores the quiet disconnections embedded in everyday life between individuals, between labor and recognition, and between presence and absence. It reflects on migration, the invisibility of labor, and the subtle erosion of human connection in an increasingly transactional world.

This exhibition invites viewers to pause and reconsider:Who have we forgotten along the way? Whose presence has quietly shaped our lives without acknowledgment?

Rather than providing answers, the exhibition creates a space for introspection an emotional and psychological return to the people we have encountered, directly or indirectly, throughout our lives.

The exhibition consists of two video installations and a series of paintings developed under the same conceptual framework.

1. You and me and everyone we have met: Taipei, 2026

This video installation reflects fragmented encounters between individuals within shared spaces. Through layered imagery and temporal disjunction, the work evokes the presence of others who pass through our lives often unnoticed, yet deeply embedded in our personal histories.

2. Balen(ciaga) I belong: All that glitters: Taipei, 2026

This piece addresses the visibility and invisibility of labor within consumer culture.Referencing systems of value, branding, and desire, the work reveals the hidden human conditions behind surfaces that appear polished and aspirational. It questions what it means to “belong” within structures that depend on unseen labor.

3. Painting Series

Accompanying the video works is a series of paintings that extend the narrative into a more intimate and material form. These works capture fleeting impressions of people, places, and emotional residues echoes of encounters that resist documentation yet persist in memory.

Venue
1f, No.32, Ln.251, Jihe Rd., Shilin Dist., Taipei City, 111, Taiwan(R.O.C)

Artists
Shareena Sattapon

Exhibition Dates
25 April – 23 May 2026

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday | 11 AM – 8 PM

Website
http://www.artemingallery.com/

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/artemin.gallery/

Contact
info@artemingallery.com

About the artist

Sareena Sattapon
Born in 1992 in Thailand, Sareena Sattapon is a visual artist who has completed a PhD in Global Art Practice at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Sattapon works with various mediums such as performance, installation and painting. She gets her artistic inspiration from her experiences and ordinary life. Sattapon’s current interest in performative spatial dynamics, related to human connection and dis-location.

She has had exhibitions internationally: in Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, China, Indonesia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Norway, Sweden and Japan.

(Text and images courtesy of Artemin Gallery)