Opaque Signs

A Fundraising Show by Sàn Art Opening: 17.12.2019 @6:00pm Duration: 17.12.2019 — 22.01.2020 Location: Sàn Art Millennium Masteri Unit B6.17 & B6.16 132 Bến Vân Đồn, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (enter from Nguyen Huu Hao side)   Read more on the artworks here “Opaque Signs” is a celebration of works graciously donated by Sàn Art’s artist-friends on the occasion of the organization’s twelfth year running. Though diverse in terms of forms, concepts and references, these gifts share a material element of luminosity. As store signs...

Artist talk: Choose to move

The artists in San Art Laboratory session 6 have just concluded their residency with the group exhibition ‘Choose to move’. Orawan Arunrak distilled various dreams of owning any place in Vietnam in her small pink paintings. Tran Tuan who was followed persistently by the consequences of past choices contemplated the haunting problem anew with his very first experimental video. Ta Minh Duc also followed a legend of survival and; with his videos he questioned the power of self-awareness, in parallel attempted a solution for the conflict between nature and human...

Choose to move

Opening: 12.05.2015 @10.30 AM – 6.30 PM Exhibition on view until 06.04.2019 Location: Saigon Domaine 1057 Binh Quoi, Ward 28, Binh Thanh San Art is pleased to present the works of resident artists Tran Tuan, Orawan Arunrak, and Ta Minh Duc from session 6 of our San Art Laboratory program. The exhibition is an investigation into the power of self reflection juxtaposed against distinctive social and historical contexts in Vietnam. Tran Tuan (Hue) once again responds to the family story that has persistently followed his life and practice, only this...

Lab 6: Open Studio 1 & Workshop

Lab 6: Open Studio 1 & Workshop with Fernanda Eugénio & Gustavo Ciríaco (Brazil)   4 PM: SITE-SPECIFIC PRACTICES: PERFORMING THE SPACE   with Fernanda Eugénio & Gustavo Ciríaco (Brazil) Where: San Art Laboratory, 40/18 Pham Viet Chanh, Binh Thanh, HCMc This workshop is an introduction to site-specific artistic practices, which use the space, its location, characteristics and particularities (in terms of habits, architecture, circulation and cultural patterns) as the basis for the creation of performative work. The aim is to explore the downtown area of Ho Chi Minh City and...

Orawan Arunrak

Orawan Arunrak (b.1985, Bangkok, Thailand)
 lives and works between Bangkok and Berlin. Orawan Arunrak’s work is largely inspired by her everyday life. Using tools like pencils, pens, paper, but also photography and the internet, she creates works that take the forms of drawing, painting and installation. Her practice is aimed at engaging in dialogue with local inhabitants in an attempt to merge the space of art and non-art. Repeatedly crossing national, cultural and spiritual borders, Arunrak’s work has examined likeness and difference within and between varied locations in both Asia...