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...
“My work has been marked by and is the convergence of my experiences of travelling and living in other countries [than my own] like China and Canada.
My proposal Within Times is about the relationship between the concepts of light and shadow.
My focus is on the principle of reflected light as a source of transformation of the physical space as it produces other layers of realities through the shadows projected on the surfaces.
The ephemeral, constant change is part of the subtle nature of shadows associated with memory, identity...
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...
‘Throughout my entire career, architecture has been the framework I have used to refer to aspects of the human condition that interest me the most, such as its temporality, fragility and terminality. My practice is also a response to the continuous state of flux within the built environment and how such change affects the relationship between human beings and their dwellings. During this talk I will discuss the process of my art and why I choose to work with particular materials (such as turning non-structured materials such as paper and...
Opening: 30.08.2014 @4pm
Location: San Art Lab Studio
48/7 Pham Viet Chanh
Binh Thanh, HCMc
Than Sok is an artist and performer from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Fascinated by spiritual ritual, its structures and meanings, wary of how contemporary social attitude is changing understandings of what it means to ‘believe’, Than Sok will unpack his artistic practice that encompasses installation, drawing, performance, video and sculpture. He will also share his experiences of his past month residency in Ho Chi Minh City, to finally conclude his presentation with a special performance!...
