CFGNY Careful Furtive Glances Neatly Yielding

02 pm, Fri 27 June 2025
EMASI Nam Long
147 Street No. 8, Nam Long Residential Area, District 7, HCMC
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Language: English

From the organizer:

CFGNY will present an overview lecture of the collective’s artistic practice, ranging from their work in fashion and garment production to their site specific, research-based institutional exhibitions. The lecture will focus on several projects that highlight the breadth of the collective’s eclectic body of work. Over the past 9 years, CFGNY has continuously investigated its concept of the ‘vaguely Asian’, an understanding of racial identity as a specific cultural experience combined with the experience of being perceived as Other within a diasporic American context. CFGNY will discuss the ways in which they have explored the ‘vaguely Asian’ through their work throughout various mediums. The collective uses fashion as ready-made material, architectural installation, performance, sculpture, photography and other means to research the ways in which material assemblage and reproduction play a part in the formation and racialization of identity and subjectivity.

About CFGNY

CFGNY is an artist collective whose research-based practice takes the form of image making, installation, sculpture, and performance to expand ideas of racialization and subjectivity. Recent exhibitions, performances and projects include Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (2025), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2024), PIN-UP Magazine, Milan (2023), SculptureCenter, New York (2022), Japan Society, New York (2022), X Museum, Beijing (2021), RISD Museum, Providence (2019), and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2018). In October 2024, CFGNY was named Frieze London’s Focus Stand Prize winner for its presentation with Hot Wheels, Athens and London. CFGNY is composed of Daniel Chew, Ten Izu, Kirsten Kilponen, and Tin Nguyen.