Olit Olit Che Cha Chà Uytt Chit Chítt

25 Jul – 16 Aug 2026
Á Space
Alley 59 Ngô Gia Tự, Long Biên, Hà Nội (turn right at the end of the alley, walk 500m), Hanoi

From the organizer:

Olit Olit Che Cha Chà Uytt Chit Chítt… continues Trương Công Tùng’s experiments in materiality and sculptural form, as well as his inquiry into life in a post-human environment where reproduction is shaped by industrialisation and mass consumption. Sprawled across the exhibition space are various forms of existence, each under particular influences: the cell’s self-defence mechanism; a machine’s unwavering precision and tireless determination to construct an ideal environment for a birth that will never be birthed; betrayals masqueraded as invitations; and a life of slow, arduous death as the light of ideology has gone out. Beneath the cacophony of sounds and movements lies a place — simulated, yet teeming with life.

Is this a laboratory?

Or what remains of a long-gone civilisation?

About the artist

Trương Công Tùng (b. 1986, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) grew up in Đắk Lắk among diverse indigenous communities in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. He graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2010, majoring in lacquer painting. With a research focus spanning science, cosmology, philosophy, and environmental studies, he works across various media, including video, installation, painting, and found objects. His work reflects personal contemplations on the cultural and geopolitical transformations driven by modernization, as seen through the evolving ecology, beliefs, and mythology of his homeland. Trương is also a member of Art Labor (founded in 2012), a collective that bridges visual art and social/life sciences to produce alternative, informal knowledge through artistic and cultural activities in various public contexts and locales.

Trương Công Tùng has exhibited extensively both in Vietnam and internationally, as a solo artist and as part of the Art Labor Collective. Selected solo exhibitions include: “Wake, mayfly…”, Kiang Malingue, New York (2026); “Day Wanes… Night Waxes”, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburger (2025); “Trail Dust”, Canal Projects, New York (2024); “The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream” at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City (2023); Sa Sa Art Project, Phnom Penh (2024); Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok (2024), and MUSEION, Bolzano (2024), supported by the Han Nefkens Foundation, where he won the Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023. In 2026, he was named the joint winner of the 8th edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize.

About the curator

Linh Lê is an independent curator, writer, and researcher from Saigon, Vietnam. Her work investigates the changing landscapes and ecologies of Saigon and beyond under the pressures of modernisation and urbanisation, while exploring how post-socialist conditions in contemporary Vietnam have shaped both social reproduction and artistic production in recent decades. Since July 2024, she has been developing Đo Đạc, a site-responsive curatorial project examining the impact of forced resettlement in the Thủ Thiêm peninsula in Ho Chi Minh City. She is currently a member of the Curatorial Board at Á Space (Hanoi) and a research fellow for ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asian Arts Censorship Database. Previously, she has held curatorial positions at A. Farm International Residency (HCMC) and Galerie Quynh (HCMC).

From August 2026, Linh will pursue a Master’s in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (NY), funded by the Fulbright Foreign Student Program.

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