Fall Hang

A group showcase Duration: 10.2020 — 12.2020 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) See the works here Featuring a small melancholic picture of blurred collective memories by Yoo Soon-Mi; a photographic scene that captures a social order by Phan Quang; an object by Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai that illuminates the everyday medical invasion of female bodies; delicate deformations growing across a field of fertility figures by Le Hoang...

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...

Challenging Stories: Contemporary Responses to the Legacies of War

Opening: 27.09 Location: Salon Saigon 6D Ngo Thoi Nhiem, Ward 7, District 3, HCMC     A panel of artists Mai Nguyen Thi Thanh, James Nguyen and curator Anthea Gunn discuss contemporary art commissions at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra that explore the legacies of conflict in the Asia-Pacific region and with a focus on a current project in Vietnam. One of a series of partnerships with organizations in Vietnam, Singapore, Papua New Guinea and South Korea, the AWM invited an artist from each country to spend four...

Day by day

This afternoon premiers Thanh Mai’s newest video work, part of the artist’s social oriented project-exhibition in Phnom Penh ‘Day by Day’. The same named video was made in several small fishing communities in Siem Reap and Pursat in Cambodia, and Long An in Vietnam. The said people, who are Vietnamese by ancestry, have lived in Cambodia for years now, but not owning any form of identification of either country. Thanh Mai seeks to explore the experiences of marginalized communities by portraying their lives by her stylized documentation that is daring,...

‘Xem’

Opening: 13.09.2013  Exhibition on view until 24.10.2013 Location: Sàn Art 3 Me Linh District Binh Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City   ‘XEM’ is a friendship. ‘XEM’ (meaning ‘to view’ or ‘to observe’) is a group of visual artists based in Saigon who seek to leave a tangible photographic trace of the world in which they live. ‘XEM’ is a book, a simple object with symbolic value. ‘XEM’ is a limited exhibition in your hands. At San Art, from 13 September to 24 October, ‘XEM’ marks its 3rd edition by turning...