San Art Laboratory Session 8

Opening: 12.2015 Exhibition on view until 12.07.2016 Location: Sàn Art 48/7 Me Linh street, Ward 19, Binh Thanh district, Hochiminh city   Non-finito “A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.” – Paul Valéry, French symbolist poet – When is an artwork ‘finished’? Since the medieval Renaissance, artists have struggled with the dichotomous tension between their desires...

Artist Talk: San Art Laboratory Session 8

San Art Laboratory session 8 would like to invite everyone to the talk show with Questal Tay (Singapore), Nguyễn Quốc Dũng (Vietnam) and Dara Kong (Cambodia), the three artists of Session 8 – the last session of residency program of Sàn Art Laboratory. Let’s explore their journey in the last 5 months to overcome or twist the social expectations: by peering through the wounds of a piece of fabric, gazing into the eyes of a discriminated painted subject, or following the maps of an alienated stranger. Let’s discuss their artistic...

Lab 8 open studio & artist talk by Lêna Bùi

‘San Art Laboratory’ and the Artist Talk by Lena Bui had regrettably been canceled. This is due to license restrictions. San Art apologizes for any inconvenience that this may cause. *** Starts at 6PM with a talk by Lêna Bùi about her 2015 project in Nepal, where she worked with women living in the historical area of Patan in Kathmandu as well as researchers from the Oxford Clinical Research Unit Nepal who studies waterborne disease in the area. Lêna will share her experiences of creating a safe storytelling space by...

Tracing

Opening: 11.2015  Exhibition on view until 01.2016 Location: Saigon Domaine 1057 Binh Quoi Binh Thanh Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam   Due to licensing difficulties, we would like to announce that the exhibition is not on (there will be no opening nor any public event). We are very sorry about this problem. Hope to be able to welcome you to other activities by San Art! *** This is a group exhibition by three resident artists from Laboratory Session 7: Nguyen Thuy Tien (Hanoi), Ratu Rizkitasari Saraswati (Jakarta), and Vo Tran...

Lab 7 open studio

Ratu Saras, Vo Tran Chau and Nguyen Thuy Tien will introduce their art projects and the process of implementation in 6 months at San Art Laboratory. How real is a memory? Can we really preserve the remnants of an experience, whether physical or emotional? These are questions that may or may not lead to the same answer. Yet Thuy Tien pursues them with an obsessive passion Moving to a new city, during this 2 months living under the pink shade and a (nearly) blank state of mind, Thuy Tien is...