Exhibition “Paint, or else”

09 am – 08 pm, 18 May – 01 June 2025
Annam Gallery
371/4 Hai Bà Trưng, Võ Thị Sáu ward, D.3, HCMC
Ticket: 50.000 VNĐ/person

From the organizer:

Annam Gallery is honored to present the group exhibition “Paint, or else” – gathering a constellation of young artists who have grown with Annam through past exhibitions and shared creative milestones, this exhibition brings forth over 50 works across various materials and methods. These pieces are more than artifacts of process — they are thresholds, each opening into an intimate interior terrain. Each piece is a fragment of an interior world still unfolding, still searching, still speaking — answering, in its own quiet way, a question that haunts the artist in moments of stillness, of crisis, of self-doubt: If not painting, what else?

These are not simply works of art, but lived moments — gestures of self-recognition rendered in pigment, line, and surface. Here, the act of making becomes an act of becoming: persistent, vulnerable, and unwavering in its search for form.

Whether through dreamlike abstractions that hover between the real and the imagined, or richly-layered botanical forms drawn from memory and care, the artists in this exhibition hold fast to something deeply personal — a thread of quiet belief, woven into every brushstroke, every mark.

This gallery, then, is for more than just the hand that draws. It’s for every heart that wonders, every spirit that dreams and doubts. “Paint, or else” – perhaps not a query, but a constant hum within. No answers needed, only the quiet conviction: to persist.

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