Literally translating as ‘linking or connected frames’, Jai’s latest solo show at Valentine Willie Fine Art is an analysis of storytelling in art. As a process artist, it is natural that Jai’s focus not only embraces the physical acts of making, but also the wider intellectual consideration of how we understand them, which in itself, is also a process.

A painting is a storyboard of ideas, a window into another world, whether in isolation or part of a larger series of images. Sometimes this is clearly narrative and sequential. At others, what we see in front of us is remote and mysterious, with few clues to its meaning. Its understanding, is therefore a process of immediate recognition and/or sustained inquiry to unlock secrets and generate new ideas.

In Bingkai Berangkai Jai emphasises the ‘frame’ – or borders that contain an image. By connecting a diverse system of new paintings, whose interlocked configuration blurs the boundaries of the frame, he encourages an alternative rhythm of interpretation. Increasingly self-reflexive, this complex visual inventory is then filled with chance and opportunity to relate, in new ways, to his observations, imaginings and autobiographies.