Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần

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 World utopia where political ideals are reimagined, and humans and non-human beings coexist and merge. She presents a non-linear and absurd interpretation of modern histories that challenges the dominant post-Cold War narratives about the Third World. 

In 2012, together with visual artists Trương Công Tùng & Phan Thảo Nguyên, she co-founded the Art Labor collective, which operates at the intersection of visual arts, social, and life sciences in various public contexts and locales, working on long-term, multiple output project.

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Writings:

Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, Artforum, Vol. 63, No. 5, JANUARY 2024