Photo by Minh Red Nguyễn Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần is an art laborer based in Saigon. She creates art both collectively and individually and also curates and writes. Her artworks combine politics and sci-fi aesthetics through the use of animation, 3D design, historical archives, and architecture. Arlette is fascinated by the idea of a futuristic Third […]
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In a career spanning over two decades, Hoang Duong Cam (b. 1974, Hanoi) dexterously alternates between painting, photography, video, installation, performance, and collaborative projects. Central to his artworks are the often humorous, sometimes absurdist explorations of the complex mechanisms that connect the self and its surroundings. The density of detail seen in much of Hoang’s
Photo: Natalie Suen Vy Trịnh (b. 1996, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is a sculptor whose work explores how networks of objects extend beyond themselves and reflect the larger socio-economic textures and conditions of contemporary Vietnam. Materials and objects are sourced from different economies and ecologies—infrastructural, automotive, electric, discarded. Methodologies and material content are intertwined,
Working in photography, film, and installation, Dinh Q. Lê (1968-2024) presented little-known narratives of war and migration from the perspective of the global Vietnamese diaspora. Synthesizing his own memory and perception with popular depictions in entertainment and journalism from Western and Eastern cultures, Lê’s singular voice reframed global histories of Southern Vietnam, challenging censorship, exploitation,
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Born in 1983 in Hà Nội, Nguyễn Thị Thanh Mai graduated from Huế College of Arts in 2006 and completed her M.A in Visual Arts at the Mahasarakham University, Thailand in 2012. Thanh Mai works with a variety of media, including photography and video. Her earlier works concentrated on issues relating to women’s experiences and
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Nguyễn Quốc Dũng uses oil paint to present images of precarious social issues associated with consumerism, mass culture, loss of privacy as a consequence of technology, and so on. He is especially interested in engaging with boundaries that are completely erased, or replaced through the passage of time, from the past to present. His works