Identity Archive Series, 2023–2024
This series traces how identity is produced, recorded, inherited, and gradually destabilised through bureaucratic and familial systems. Working with documents, family archives, and materials shaped by migration and displacement, Wantanee transforms personal records into fragile sites where memory, authority, and loss intersect.
The works Racharudee, 3448, and Echoes of the Wind investigate how institutional identities become embedded in matter. A clan book pulped into new paper, clay mixed with ancestral stone dust, and porcelain sheets modelled on passports and permits translate administrative documents into unstable, tactile forms. Through these material shifts, the works reveal how belonging is constructed through movement, documentation, care, and restriction.
The series foregrounds their vulnerability. Forms deteriorate, meanings erode, and official records become subject to time, handling, and reinterpretation. What endures is not the document itself, but the network of relationships, dependencies, and histories sedimented through its transformation.
