Exhibition “In a Shared World”
10 AM – 05 PM, 24 Oct – 27 Dec 2026
Indochine House
3rd floor, no. 8 Tràng Thi, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội
From the organizer:
Every being in the world carries a distinct temporal structure, material dimension, and ecosystem of memories. At an individual level, each person is an entirely singular entity, with no exact replica capable of being perfectly reconstructed. Yet each individual exists both within a world of their own and in a wider web of relations, where differing experiences, perceptions, and values encounter and transform one another. The shared world is chaotic, yet it also possesses a certain order, it is perceptible and profoundly human, apprehended through different dimensions of people’s society.
Among the lenses that shape human perception, history, culture, and religion form the three central themes explored in the exhibition “In a shared world”. This event showcases works by five artists: Tran Hoang Son (b. 1972), Le Quy Tong (b. 1977), Nguyen Hong Duc (b. 1980), Nguyen The Hung (b. 1981), and Doan Van Toi (b. 1989).
Building on a line of inquiry initiated in the early 2000s, Le Quy Tong (b. 1977) has steadily developed a language characterised by areas of ambiguity, through which history and human fate may be viewed from multiple perspectives without necessarily arriving at a single conclusion. A similarly multi-perspectival narrative structure emerges in the works of Nguyen Hong Duc (b. 1980), whose networks of imagery bring multiple individual worlds into simultaneous presence within a larger, shared whole. Meanwhile, drawing on cultural material and its transformations through contemporary thought, Nguyen The Hung (b. 1981) employs layers of lacquer as a metaphor for the accumulation of experience and knowledge across generations. Working with silk and ideas informed by Buddhism, Tran Hoang Son (b. 1972) and Doan Van Toi (b. 1989) pursue two distinct approaches. Tran Hoang Son draws on traditional techniques to connect religious imagery with contemporary life and explore the interplay between humanity and nature. Doan Van Toi, by contrast, employs conceptually driven silk installations – a hallmark of his practice in recent years – to prompt reflection on the dualities of movement and stillness, as well as the fundamental nature of all things.
As perspectives on history, culture, and belief converge through the distinct artistic approaches of these five artists, the exhibition does not seek to deliver a definitive account of right and wrong, nor to proclaim a particular way of life. Instead, it brings different viewpoints into coexistence, allowing them to intersect and illuminate one another within a reality that is inherently complex and interconnected. In this process, art does more than provide images through which pre-existing ideas are expressed, it creates its own modes of inquiry, through which questions of history, culture, and belief can be experienced, interpreted, and reconsidered in new relationships.
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