HCMC – Exhibition “Day by Day” by Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai

Opening: Sat 28 Mar 2015, 3 pm
Exhibition: 28 Mar – 09 May 2015
Sao La

Artist Talk with Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai on 08 Apr at Goethe Institut, Hanoi.

From the organizer:

You are invited to “DAY BY DAY”, a solo exhibition of Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai.

Thanh Mai is an internationally award-winning artist, based in Hue. The exhibition consists of four interrelated serial artworks in various media, which draw on one year of extensive research by the artist in several small fishing communities in Siem Reap and Pursat, Cambodia as well as in Long An, Vietnam.

Day by Day, the title Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai has chosen for this travelling solo exhibition, is a phrase the artist borrowed from villagers living in a small fishing community in Siem Reap province, in northern Cambodia. She heard it also in another fishing village, in Pursat, and in a village across the border in Long An, Vietnam. In her artist’s statement, Nguyen suggests that the villagers’ frequent use of this phrase “drew the picture of their future.”

“DAY BY DAY” presents a set of circumstances that are highly specific to the case of Vietnamese in Cambodia, yet also of broader relevance, intersecting with universal questions of citizenship and migration. (Roger Nelson)

* For parking: parking lot, 3 Le Thi Hong Gam St. (next to The HCMC Fine Arts Museum)

“DAY BY DAY” is part of a bigger community art project titled “MARCH: ART WALK” from March 29 to May 9, 2015.