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.

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.