View of Nguyễn Trinh Thi, “47 Days, Sound-less,” 2024, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore. Photo: Singapore Art Museum.
“Within a dark chamber, two screens face one another at diagonal angles, each linked to a single projector. Overhead, a constellation of ceiling-suspended mirrors deflects the light from another projector, resulting in eight scattered, ghost light projections on the walls. As viewers recline on beanbags placed strategically on the floor between the two screens, our split peripheral vision becomes enticed by a chimerical montage of found footage—Nguyễn’s previous moving images depicting Jrai people’s sound-centered cosmologies are interspersed with slices of natural landscapes and arpeggiated noises extracted from Vietnamese wartime films along with Hollywood blockbusters.”
Artwork photo provided by Singapore Art Museum.
Read the full review at Artforum.
