The exhibition borrows its title from nirat, a Thai literary genre of travel writing composed from the perspective of one who has left home. The exhibition presents the period Kamin spent living in New York between 1987 to around 1992, bringing together archival materials and works from this relatively underexplored moment in his practice.
Rather than presenting these years as a polished point of origin in the artist’s career, the exhibition approaches them as a condition of dislocation, uncertainty, and the inability to settle. Nirat New York constructs an image of a fragmented period, rather than narrating artistic development as a continuous and seamless progression.
The exhibition also situates Kamin’s experience within a broader context, when contemporary art from Asia and the Asia-Pacific began to gain increasing visibility and interpretation within international exhibition circuits. It asks how a young Thai artist negotiated this changing field, while also searching for forms of artistic practice capable of embracing everyday life, spiritual reflection, and the uncertainty of existing between places.
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