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,
Translation has traditionally been seen as a medium through which intercommunal linkages are made possible. Particularly in the art, where there is a constant desire for distribution and exchange of knowledge between different communities as well as forms (visual to textual, audio, sensorial, and vice versa), translation plays a pivotal role in configuring spaces for
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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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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
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,
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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Photo: Đỗ Văn Hoàng On April 13-14, 2024, at the 1st Conference on Curating in Vietnam, co-organized by Á Space and School of Interdisciplinary Sciences and Arts – Vietnam National University, Hanoi with the support from Dogma Collection, Nguyen Art Foundation, and The Outpost Art Organisation, I delivered a talk titled ‘Translation as a meaning-making
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Based in Hanoi, Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a filmmaker and artist. Traversing boundaries between film, documentary, video art, installation, and performance, her practice currently explores the potential of sound and listening, and the multiple relations between the image, sound, and space with ongoing interests in history, memory, ecology, representation, and the unknown. Recent exhibitions include