Mit Jai Inn
By Tarun Nagesh
‘11th Asia Pacific Triennial’ August 2024
Mit Jai Inn
Born 1960, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Lives and works in Chiang Mai
A prominent figure in the development of contemporary art in Thailand, Mit Jai Inn has cultivated an ambitious and prolific practice over four decades, which has both nurtured an artistic community and called attention to the political constructs governing it. Central to his career has been an expansive painting practice — a sustained, considered exploration of spatial experience and materiality, rooted in abstraction.
(left to right, installation view, QAG, September 2024) Untitled (Scroll #APT) 2024 / Oil on canvas / Purchased 2024 with funds from Tim Fairfax AC through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation; Untitled (Totem #APT) 2024 and Untitled (Tunnel #APT) 2024 / Oil on canvas / Commissioned for APT11 / Courtesy: The artist and Silverlens, Manila and New York / © Mit Jai Inn / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA
For the Asia Pacific Triennial, Jai Inn has carefully orchestrated a series of works to inhabit the Queensland Art Gallery’s Watermall. Drawing on the structures of a tunnel, scroll and suspended ‘totems’, Jai Inn responds to the unique architectural characteristics of this space to explore his interests in time and transformation. With these large-scale sculptural works, the artist has created layered views that reveal and conceal to enact portals between worlds.
Untitled (Scroll #APT) (detail) 2024, with a glimpse of Untitled (Totem #APT) 2024 (Courtesy: The artist and Silverlens, Manila and New York) in the distance, GOMA, Septeber 2024 / © Mit Jai Inn / Photograph: C Callistemon, QAGOMA
Untitled (Scroll#APT) 2024
- JAI INN, Mit - Creator
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