Phnom Penh: Trương Công Tùng

View of “Trương Công Tùng: The disoriented garden . . . A breath of dream,” 2024. From left: The lost landscape #1, 2021–; In the wind up the sky in the garden . . . Shadows out there #4, 2023–; The disoriented garden . . . A breath of dream, 2023–. Photo: Ratha Raksa.

“In this ongoing work begun in 2023, Trương interlaced footage shot in his hometown in Vietnam’s Central Highlands to create a mix of oneiric bodies. An elephant’s somber eye, a teardrop trickling down rugose bronze-colored skin, a disheveled figure wandering across scorched red hills, a duo of spectral orbs in a perpetual hide-and-seek: The video seemed to trigger subconscious memories of a forgotten land that exists solely within imaginative boundaries.”

Artwork photo provided by Sa Sa Art Projects.

Read the full review at Artforum.

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