Exhibition “Across The Forest” by Truong Cong Tung
Opening: Thu 13 Oct 2016, 6 pm
Exhibition: 14 Oct – 06 Nov 2016 (from Wednesday to Sunday , 3 – 7 pm)
Nha San Collective
From Nha San Collective:
“Across the Forest” continues Công Tùng’s deep-rooted fascination with the history and culture of the Jarai, the largest ethnic group in Việt Nam’s Central Highlands where the artist comes from. Fusing folklore elements with his personal observation of the landscape and the lives of the modern Jarai people, Công Tùng’s video installation work paints a bleak portrait and contemplates the state of a community confronted with numerous upheavals.
About artist Trương Công Tùng
Born in 1986 in Đắk Lắk and currently based in Hồ Chí Minh City, Trương Công Tùng graduated from the Hồ Chí Minh City University of Fine Arts in 2010 with a degree in lacquer painting, but has since expanded his practice to video and installation. Intrigued by unexplainable occurrences, Công Tùng draws a lot of his inspiration from spiritual culture, oral history and micro-history, bringing them into his works to continuously explore themes such as social changes, ethnicity, religion and politics.
He has participated in numerous exhibitions including Tapei Biennale 2016, Miền Méo Miệng (Umea, Sweden), SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 (South Korea), Haunted Thresholds (Göttingen, Germany), South by Southeast (Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong) and Above the sky, Under the sea (Sàn Art, Việt Nam).
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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