Nghĩa Đặng

Nghia Dang (b. 1994, Hanoi) uses psychoanalytical ideas, and in particular the Lacanian approach, as a tool to traverse what he calls ‘the ruin within himself’, making sense of his experiences, relationships and, perhaps most salient of all, how the self is constructed. The artworks alternate between visceral iterations of reality and the imaginary realm […]

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Trương Công Tùng

Born in 1986, Truong Cong Tung grew up in Dak Lak among various ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands, Vietnam. He graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2010, majoring in lacquer painting. With research interests in science, cosmology, philosophy and the environment, Truong Cong Tung works with a range of media,

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Saigon: Fractured Lens: Memory, Photography, and Archive at an Intersection

In May 2023, with artist Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen and researcher Eléonore Tran, I co-hosted a seminar and screening program titled “Fractured Lens: Memory, Archive, and Photography at an Intersection” at San Art, Ho Chi Minh City. Below are some images and the blurbs for each individual program: As we enter a hyper-digitalized era, with the

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