Open-Studio | Sàn Art Studio #2
Date & Time: Fri-Sat, 19 & 20th May @3PM-8PM
Location: Sàn Art
Millenium Masteri,
Units B.16 & B.17
132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Language: Vietnamese/English
We were so happy to see the community pop in to see Artist-in-Residence Trần Thảo Miên’s haunting tree shrine-in-the-making at a 2-day open-studio event at Sàn Art. The open-studio was a great opportunity to meet the artist and get a chance to see a residency project in the making. We also...
Earthly Palimpsests: A film screening programme
Date & Time: Wed, 10 May @6PM-8PM
Location: Sàn Art
Millenium Masteri,
Units B.16 & B.17
132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4,
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Language: English
As part of Sàn Art Studio #2, Sàn Art and artist-in-residence Miên presented a screening series focused on how artist-filmmakers are engaging with spiritual, political, and historical dimensions of the natural world. Composed of 5 short films produced by regional artists, this programme invited viewers to engage in a complex dialogue with, and...
“We make use of the tree in all kinds of forms, physically and spiritually…We worship gods and ghosts that reside in and on the trees, but no one actually pays respect to the tree itself.” – Trần Thảo Miên
Our second artist-in-residence is Trần Thảo Miên, a Hanoi-based artist whose work approaches trees and other nonhuman beings through the Vietnamese belief “Van vat huu linh” (all beings are with souls).
In the process of material-based practices and experiments, Miên approaches arboreal and living creatures according to animism from an anthropological...
Open Call – Sàn Art Studio Season 2...
Time: 20.05.2022
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)
As part of Sàn Art Studio’s public program for artist Chi L. Nguyen’s residency, we hosted a talk about mirror paintings in Southern Vietnam, presented by Nguyen Duc Huy – a prominent collector and conservator of over 60 mirror paintings. During the hour-long presentation, Huy traced and detailed the art form’s origin and historical development, starting out as decorative art...
