With his unique methodology and practice, Kamin Lertchaiprasert strongly leads the Thai contemporary art scene. Based in the city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, he considers art as a process for a better understanding of life and nature, and takes a course of creative activity that emphasizes process, aiming to integrate art and life. For Kamin, art is to question how we can discover an unostentatious essential life.

His works are often based on real-life experience such as events of daily life and conversations he has had with people. Aided by his daily practice of meditation, the artist transforms his experiences into diary-like sculptures and drawings. Many of his works depict human figures sitting in meditation. These sculptures can be interpreted as quotidian portrayals of the artist or the people around him, rather than as representations of Buddha.

The series of 24 bronze sculptures presented in “Beyond... “ alludes to natural providence beyond vision and hearing, beyond all human perception. A symbol-like motif is hidden, incised onto the bottom of a seated figure. The bronze sculptures were made by craftsmen in Chiang Mai through a traditional casting method. A seemingly unsophisticated coarse finish is left intentionally, an indication that art is not just a pursuit of technical excellence and decorative beauty.