BELGIUM / Brussels: Thao Nguyen Phan's largest exhibition at WIELS | Modem Mag

until Sunday April 26 2020

WIELS - Contemporary Art Centre
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Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Belgium

www.wiels.org/en/exhibitions/1261/Thao-Nguyen-Phan

Thao Nguyen Phan’s exhibition at WIELS – her largest to date – will take place from the 1st of February to the 26th April 2020.

Taking different forms and starting points, these recent projects all explore the agricultural, political and social context of the Vietnamese rurality and countryside. However, Phan’s work transgresses a purely historical or political point of view, to incorporate an interest in literature and language. Through storytelling, fiction, official and unofficial history, it subtly reveals the forgotten and the forgettable in poetic recollections.

The exhibition includes three videos accompanied by watercolour paintings: Tropical Siesta (2017), Mute Grain (2019) and Becoming Alluvium (currently in production).

This exhibition is a project of the Han Nefkens Foundation, in collaboration with: Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona), WIELS (Brussels) and the Chisenhale Gallery (London). On this occasion, Phan’s first monograph will be co-published by the exhibition partners, the Han Nefkens Foundation and Mousse Publishing.