’Kẽ / Gap” at Nhasan Studio

’Kẽ / Gap” at Nhasan Studio

Opening: Thur 20 May, 7 pm
Exhibition: 20 – 23 May
Nha San Duc

Nhasan studio is excited to present Nguyen Tran Nam’s site-specific video installation ‘Kẽ / Gap’, the second installment of our 2010 ‘EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM’.

A Kẽ is a gap, a crack between closely spaced things, a peephole in a door. The word can apply to the microscopic – the delicate space between the veins on a leaf or an insect’s wing that fills with light. Kẽ is also a loophole in the law. Kẽ hở refers to the ability to navigate the underbelly of society’s rules, slyly weaseling through spaces where laws cannot be enforced. Nguyen Tran Nam summons us, with a quiet deliberation that we pause, peer through the ke, and attempt to slip through.

The work is comprised of a suite of fifteen sculptures. They are part mechanized creature, and part hive made from wire armatures, swathed in string and caked with a mud and paper pulp. Each hive cradles, within its bellied interior, a unique black and white video shown on a continuous loop. The hives grow from beneath the beams, projecting a dim glow in the shadowed corners of Nhasan.

Nguyen Tran Nam has installed his sculptures in the dark places in a room that are often forgotten. His camera lens focuses on the parts of the body that people tend to forget. He gives us a nearly microscopic insect-eye view. The crevice between a thumb and finger, opening and closing slowly. The sleepy bend of an elbow. The lick of a tongue. In these subtle movements we find sex, we find un-muted desire and a new way of seeing. Embedding the digital into an earthen dwelling, Nguyen Tran Nam merges disparate language and place.

Ke / Gap is the second installation in our “EMERGING ARTIST PROGRAM”. A total of six artists, Le Huy Hoang (April 2010), and upcoming, Nguyen Phuong Linh , Lai Thi Dieu Ha, Nguyen Trinh Thi and Nguyen Van Phuc will have a solo exhibitions at Nhasan studio over the course of 2010.

Nhà Sàn Đức
Tổ 50, Cụm 5, Vĩnh Phúc, Ba Đình, Hà Nội
by appointment
Tel: 0437625452
(enter via 462, Duong Buoi)

map to Nha San Duc

NO COMMENTS

Leave a Reply