Vietnamese artist exhibits in New York

Vietnamese artist Do Hoang Tuong is participating in Police and Her, an exhibition organized by IFA Gallery in New York. The exhibition lasts from 10 Jul to 22 Aug. The vietnamese artist offers two oil works where one nude and one semi-clad female figure adopt identical poses, their visage bearing traces of torment amidst a bold, colorist composition whose focal point is their vaginal area. Both culturally and compositionally neutral, this works resound with prominent tones of eroticism, sexual deviance and an implied force of gender oppression.Police and Her draws together fourteen artists whom have sought to address questions of gender and authority with an intelligently provocative collective response, a thematically sound exhibition offering varying interpretations by each individual given independent locations in the actual site of the gallery space.

A delicate issue which pertains to a reality often indiscernible to the casual eye, the inter-relationship between women and policing authorities in the PRC, is depicted in an astringent manner. Frontal portrayals of the female form alongside/engaged with/subjected to/in oppositional contrast with immediately identifiable police reveals the complexity of what exists, in truth, due to an interdependency whose origin is socio-economic while simultaneously the fruit of oppression and gender discrimination.

For detailed information about this exhibition as well as the artists participated, please visit IFA Gallery’s website.