Rain

Opening: Fri 26 Mar, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 26 – 30 Mar
Nha San Duc

Nhasan Studio proudly presents to you our first “EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM”, which will take place throughout 2010 with six solo exhibitions by Le Huy Hoang, Nguyen Tran Nam, Nguyen Phuon Linh, Lai Dieu Ha, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Nguyen Van Phuc.

These six artists have all worked individually and collaboratively in various projects, such as the 10+ exhibition to celebrate Nhasan studio’s 10th anniversary (2008), the Young Contemporary Art Festival at the Fine Arts University (2007), Saigon Open City (2006)…

Le Huy Hoang is the first artist to launch the program, with his exhibition entitled “Rain”.

After his solo exhibition “Scarf”, which took place at Nhasan Studio in 2009, Hoang continues to explore and use both natural and industrial materials in this exhibition. In the middle of the exhibition space lays a cabbage garden, which will keep growing throughout the duration of the show. Above it flies a shower of rain, made from thousands of needles. “I want to portray a sense of contrary. These fragile seeds of life are trying to grow. But how can they grow naturally when there are so many forces trying to alter and stop them?”, Hoang explains.

As you walk around the space, the light reflected from the needles seems to dance in harmony with your movements, from one corner to another, from the ceiling to the floor, from left to right… You become uncertain of what appears before you. Everything seems to have been stopped and stuck in time and space, just like they do in photographs. If you stay still long enough, you will be able to see the minimal movement of these “rain drops”, and hear the cabbage as it grows slowly and quietly.

As a mixed-race son of a Vietnamese woman and a Cambodian man, Le Huy Hoang has always used his unique cultural perspectives and experiences as the starting point for his work. He also explores and exposes issues he has to face with, personally, socially and politically.

This program is made possible by the generous help of the Culture Development and Exchange Foundation of the Danish Embassy in Hanoi.