Exhibition “Speaking in the Dark”
Opening: Sat 09 Jul 2016, 6.30 pm
Artist talk: Sat 09 Jul 2016, 4 pm
Exhibition: 10 – 24 July 2016, 2 – 7 pm (from Wednesday to Sunday)
Nha San Collective
From Nha San Collective:
Nha San Collective is happy to invite you to the exhibition “Speaking in the dark” by two artists Hồng-Ân Trương and Hương Ngô.
This exhibition brings together new bodies of work by two artists, Hồng-Ân Trương and Hương Ngô. Drawing from their experiences as part of the Vietnamese diaspora, both artists use their family histories to explore questions of belonging, language, and memory. Through video, photography, and installation, Hồng-Ân Trương and Hương Ngô consider the ways in which identity is affected by shifting notions of time.
Hồng-Ân Trương’s work asks, “What is the act of remembering when the language that is spoken is always already fragmented?” Her installation uses the photographic and the cinematic to reveal the incapacities of language in the aftermath of trauma.
Through the investigation of voice as both medium and archive, Hương Ngô complicates the borders between personal and collective experience, fact and fiction in the process of understanding ourselves. Exploring the interaction of image and sound through personal and popular culture references, Hương Ngô asks “How do we reconcile the tension between seeking a fixed identity with the reality of how culture moves and is transferred?”
About artist Hồng-Ân Trương
Hồng-Ân Trương’s interdisciplinary projects examine structures of time, memory, and the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders. Her work has been shown at the International Center for Photography, Art in General, Smack Mellon, and The Kitchen among others. In 2013 she was recipient of an Art Matters Grant, a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, and a Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2015. Truong was a studio art fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program and is currently an artist in the Open Session Program, curated by Nova Benway and Lisa Sigal at The Drawing Center in New York. She is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
About artist Hương Ngô
Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied Art & Technology, and was a studio art fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. She was recently awarded the prestigious Fulbright US Scholar Grant in Vietnam to continue a research-based project begun while at the Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer in Aix-en-Provencebased on the surveillance records of anti-colonial organizer and proto-feminist Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai. She will produce the project while a Chicago Artists Coalition BOLT artist-in-residence and exhibit this new work in solo shows at the DePaul Art Museum and The Franklin in 2017.
She has been supported by the New Museum, Rhizome, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, and has been in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, SOMA Mexico, the Camargo Foundation, and Latitude among others. She has taught at the Museum of Modern Art, Pratt Institute, and Parsons the New School for Design and will join the faculty at Northwestern University in 2016 as a visiting lecturer.
Hồng-Ân Trương and Hương Ngô will exhibit collaborative work in the exhibition Hidden Assembly, which will debut at SPACES in Cleveland, OH and travel to Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, OR.
* Free entrance
* Artist talk will be in English with Vietnamese translation
Communication partner: Hanoi Grapevine
Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advice, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focuses on.
If you are interested and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit
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