A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
KAMIN LERTCHAIPRASERT
SEPT 25, 2016 – FEB 06, 2017
MAIIAM CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
During the first ten years of his artistic endeavor (1979-1988), Lertchaiprasert created visual artworks in the forms of photography and printmaking to question and search for life’s meaning. The exhibition will feature a collection of his paintings entitled “Circle of Life” which, though never exhibited anywhere, marks the beginning of his pursuit for the value of life through the creation of artworks. The second part of this exhibition will display his works from the past ten years (2008-2016) through the collection “Before Birth After Death”, as the artist has realized the influence of the past and the future on the present moment. Lertchaiprasert has engaged himself in a wide array of creative activities, including drawing, painting, reading, meditating, pottery-making, wax-sculpture, and live and recorded performance, to name but a few. The learning process underlying these activities contributes to the understanding of the present moment as the point between the past and the future. Everything that happens, happens only in the present moment, neither in the past nor in the future. This concept has rendered the latest collection of his work under the name “Timeless Present Moment.”
“The Present Moment” is the state that is without everything and includes everything in the same time. It is existing and non-existing, the state of selflessness, beyond time, beyond duality. If we happen to experience this state even once, it will change our perspective and transcends us beyond our thoughts from consciousness experiences that perceive everything as self-centric, because in fact everything is actually one.