Anh-Phuong Nguyen

Anh-Phuong Nguyen (b. 1999, Hanoi) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, working between the UK and Vietnam. Her practice is informed by contemporary material cultures and systems of production, circulation, and display. Working through an improvisational and additive process, Nguyen draws subject matter and inspiration from an expansive cache that includes contemporary tourism research journals, the architecture of faux neoclassical Vietnamese shopping malls, and assemblages of kitsch objects found on London high streets. These seemingly unrelated elements collide within her practice in an act akin to miniature landscaping, articulating a deeply personal sensitivity to the material world and the materiality of things. Through acts of tampering, reproduction, and juxtaposition, Nguyen oscillates between the authentic and the manufactured-probing the boundaries between the prosaic and the poetic, the real and the fake, the desirable and the distasteful - allowing space for the weird and the strange to emerge.