Nirat New York, a retrospective of early work by Kamin Lertchaiprasert, opened at JWD Art Space in Bangkok today and runs until 26th July. Kamin was living in New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and the works in the exhibition date from that period.
One of the centrepieces is Muangnging 1991–1992 (ม่วงจิ้ง 1991–1992), a series of 366 oil and acrylic paintings representing a year and a day in the artist’s life. The painting for 19th May 1992 shows the events of ‘Black May’, and subsequent paintings show Kamin leaving America to return to Thailand and witness the events at Democracy Monument for himself four days later.