Tuan Andrew Nguyen speaks with ArtAsiaPacific ahead of the unveiling of Naga (2025), his first permanent public sculpture commissioned for the new Princeton University Art Museum. In conversation with Jennifer S. Li, Nguyen reflects on material memory, reincarnation, storytelling, and the enduring psychological and physical afterlives of war — tracing how unexploded ordnance, mythology, migration, and personal history continue to shape his multidisciplinary practice.
Drawing from works including The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon (2022) and The Specter of Ancestors Becoming (2019), the interview explores Nguyen’s ongoing engagement with trauma, displacement, spirituality, and the layered relationships between land, objects, and collective memory.
Read the full interview by Jennifer S. Li for ArtAsiaPacific here.
