Bodies Survey(ed)

Opening: 12.12.2018 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until  29.01.2019 Location: Sàn Art Millennium Masteri Building Unit B6.16 & B6.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (enter from Nguyen Huu Hao side)   View curatorial text here Bodies Survey(ed), an exhibition marking Sàn Art’s return, traverses the presences and absences of the body across various mediums—painting, installation, wartime visual artifacts, artist’s book and livestream video—as a meditation on the visibility of bodies in art and beyond. Contours, postures and reveries of subjects ranging from the...

Come to [what] end?

A group exhibition featuring Pham Dinh Tien, Nguyen Tran Nam and Rudy ‘Atjeh’ D Opening: 06.11.2014 @6:30pm Exhibition on view until 30.01.2015 Location: Sàn Art 3 Me Linh, Binh Thanh Ho Chi Minh City   Sàn Art is pleased to present ‘Come to [what] end?’ – a group exhibition featuring installation, sculpture, video and paper-cut work by artists Pham Dinh Tien, Nguyen Tran Nam and Rudy ‘Atjeh’ D, concluding their time with ‘Sàn Art Laboratory: Session Five’. Curiosity is an innate part of human nature. Children often ponder in fascination...

Artist talk with Nguyen Tran Nam, Pham Dinh Tien and Rudy ‘Atjeh’ D

These three gentlemen have been on residency with ‘San Art Laboratory’ over the last 6 months, resulting in their group exhibition ‘Come to [what] end?’ – Nam has re-cast the French guillotine as a personal symbol questioning death as punishment, as sacrifice, as an act eventually memorialized but for whom? ; for Tien our fate often appears random and beyond our control, a contemplation triggered by the disappearance of Malaysian Airline 370; for Rudy his paper-cutting genius illustrates the encounter of culture and religion, between the Cham Kingdom and the...