KVT – Dolled up in Yet Kieu

KVT gets a lot of pleasure from Luu Tuyen’s dolls

Sometimes I see an exhibition and I just know that I’m going to have a lot of fun compiling the opinion piece. And so it was with Luu Tuyen’s dolls. My interpretations stand to be corrected or pulled to bits !

It’s a nice exhibition because….

– There are only a few large canvasses on the walls and the show breathes expansively…welcomingly
– The artist can paint see through plastic amazingly well
– It’s an exhibition that titilates your mind with a few questions

The exhibition looks as though it combines paintings from two series. There are two surrealistic type paintings titled ‘Digital Age’ . In one a doll on a paper aeroplane has superceded and made irrelevent a traditional procession that in past history disseminated information orally. A nice comment with even the doll (that I guess represents mute and accepting humans) now an irrelevancy as it’s from a more recent past when things were a trifle slower and when a letter was the fastest way that personal information was usually disseminated ( oh horror! shout today’s mod bods who can’t live without instant communication gratification)

The next shows the bewildered looking figure firmly grounded in the communication detritus of that time in history…
Another surreal canvas is of fighter planes buzzing in a bird cage with the cloth cover lifted but the whole shrouded in see through plastic wrap. Now if we look at a similar image in the shows PR we see the cage in another space. Now my question is: was the initial real painting censored due to a variety of geographical reasons and if so was it the kick start for this exhibition? When I see exhibitions like this one my brain is always a surmising cess pool