Artist Talk: Nguyễn Phương Linh
Artist Talk | Nov. 5, 2019, 7pm
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Artist Nguyễn Phương Linh delivers a talk about her practice and recent projects.
About the Artist Talk.
Phương Linh’s multidisciplinary practice spans installation, sculpture and video. Her works contemplate the intertwined nature of visible and invisible truth, form and time, and convey a pervasive sense of dislocation and ephemerality. She is concerned with geographic cultural shifts, traditional roots and the fragmented history in Vietnam. Phương Linh grew up living and working with many of the most respected contemporary artists of the Vietnam art scene at Nha San–the first non-profit artist run art space for experimental art in the country, which was founded by her father, artist Nguyen Manh Duc, in her childhood home in Hanoi. After Vietnamese authorities closed down Nha San in 2011, Phương Linh co-founded and co-directed Nha San Collective, a group of young artists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of expression in Vietnam as well as supporting other young artists in the community. During her artist talk Phương Linh will discuss both her practice and her work in cultural organizing.
About the Artist.
Nguyễn Phương Linh (b. 1985, Vietnam) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans video, sculpture and installation. Her choice of materials (including salt, dust and rubber fragments) brings together the sensual and the humble to explore the transformations of geopolitical landscape and the human manipulation of nature. In 2013, she co-founded Nhà Sàn Collective. From 2007-2008, she studies at the Academica Albertina belle di Arti, Turin, and from 2015 to 2017, she studies with Tobias Rehbergerat at the Stadelschule Frankfurt. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions, with recent solo shows at 3147966 cm3 gallery in Thailand and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan. Phuong Linh has participated in Singapore Biennale, Kuandu Biennale Taipei and Shanghai Biennale in 2016. She received Pollock Krasner award in 2017. In 2018 she realized a solo Trùng Mù - Endless sightless at BACC Bangkok for Hans Nefkens BACC award. In addition, Phuong Linh has held many international artist residencies with organizations such as Seoul Art Space, Korea, and Kaman Art Foundation, Rajasthan, India.
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Artist Talk: Nguyễn Phương Linh is organized by TMR and presented in conjunction with Where The Sea Remembers.
This artist talk is part of Histories of a Vanishing Present, TMR’s 2019-2020 curatorial cycle exploring the global dynamics of postmemory. Major support for this cycle is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
TMR's program is made possible with the support of its Board of Directors, Big Mistake Patron Group, International Council, and Contemporary Council.
This project is made possible through a major gift from Stephen O. Lesser.
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