Exhibition “Out of Orbit”
09 am – 08 pm, Tues – Sun, 03 June – 13 July 2025
Mơ Art Space
Floor B3, 136 Hàng Trống, Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội
From the organizer:
This June, it brings us great joy to announce the first solo exhibition “Out of Orbit” by artist Hoang Anh Trung at Mo Art Space for all art enthusiasts to explore and appreciate.
“The notion of constructing imaginary worlds is often associated with ‘subcreation’ – building fictional topographies with their own rules, histories, culture and coherent logic. While integral to fiction and fantasy, the idea has (long) been at work in contemporary visual art, in the way artists conjure, map, and inhabit their own ecosystems of imagery. Worlds are not just setting, they offer the very condition through which we read, feel, and begin to comprehend happenings. To get to know Out of Orbit by Trung is to enter such a space: one of the artist’s own making, shaped by intuition rather than logic, where colours and lines evoke a childlike sense of wonder and beauty is found in the mundane.
Trung – or Hoang Anh Trung (b.1997, Hanoi) was initially trained in architecture before leaving it in search for a more human, instinctive way of making. And doodling soon became that way. In this tool, he found a form that allows for a kind of honest imperfection, where each line was drawn to express more than to impress. Perhaps that’s why there is a playful, candid tone to his work: rarely calculated yet never without care.
Trung’s work often draws directly from everyday experience – cartoon imagery, toys, plants, folk stories, comic debris, architectural patterns (and even childhood snacks!) all become ingredients for his creative process. And Out of Orbit is where these fragments are given space to surface, drifting in without calculation, like scraps of thought. This aesthetic, and the use of doodle as the primary tool, came from a place of instinctive making: art as a way to make sense, however loosely, of the rhythms and fragments of everyday life. The result is a visual language shaped not by strategy, but by quiet accumulation, and the ordinary takes on the shimmer of the quietly magical, like the kind of wonder seen through a child’s eyes.
For Trung, Out of Orbit marks the first time this world opens to others in a public space. Yet rather than a finished universe, it is a body of work in motion – alive and still evolving. What we are seeing here is simply the shape it has taken, for now: like a being between seasons, growing slowly, almost imperceptibly, but never still. In this sense, the exhibition is less a declaration than a conversation, a moment captured in time, before the next begins.”
– Excerpt from the exhibition article by art historian Lan-Chi Nguyen.
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