Artist talk with Jun Nguyễn-Hatsushiba
06:30 PM – 08 PM, Fri 30 Oct 2026
Matca Space for Photography
48 Ngọc Hà, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Language: English with Vietnamese translation
From the organizer:
Through a selection of projects spanning his long career, Jun Nguyễn-Hatsushiba will reflect on the evolving relationship between photography and his wider artistic practice, shaped by questions of memory, displacement, identity and local histories.
The talk at Matca traces his journey from early photographic work to the moving-image and installation works for which he is internationally recognised. Beginning with his landmark underwater film featuring cyclo drivers, Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex – For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards (2001), Jun will consider how images can evoke histories that are difficult to represent directly. Subsequent works extend these enquiries through performance, sound, installation, and moving image. Made during the pandemic following a hiatus from art, his recent participatory installation While I am Dead – A Prelude to Life brings together more than 200 monochromatic photographs of everyday encounters and personal life in Houston and Tokyo. It is also published as a photobook.
Through these projects, Jun invites us to consider photography not only as a means of representing the world, but also of creating relationships, preserving fleeting encounters and making space for reflection.
About artist
Jun Nguyễn-Hatsushiba (b. 1968, Tokyo) is a Vietnamese-Japanese artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, film, performance and installation. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1994. He gained international recognition with Memorial Project Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex – For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards (2001), an underwater film that reflects on Vietnam’s history, labour and displacement. Across his subsequent work, Jun has explored memory, identity and historical consciousness through a combination of moving images, physical interventions and participatory projects. His work has been presented at major international exhibitions and biennales, including the Venice Biennale, Yokohama Triennale and Shanghai Biennale, and is held in various collections including the Centre Pompidou, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art and Mori Art Museum.
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