It has been a great honor to write, converse, and think alongside the artmakers of Southeast Asia for the last two years. This TOP TEN list, while shedding light on critical artistic practice and unconventional exhibitions, is nowhere near exhaustive. Wrapping up 2024 and preparing for 2025 with a heart filled with joy and gratitude. […]
“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.
The fabric subtly embeds itself into the background, embracing the figures and offering a lens of translation through which aspects of the women’s individual narratives are accentuated and complicated.