FRIEZE SEOUL 2024: September 4 - 7, COEX

Galerie Quynh is thrilled to return to Frieze Seoul with a presentation of new sculptures by Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Currently featured in a number of institutional exhibitions worldwide including major solo shows at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town and Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, Nguyen’s work resonates across cultures in its power to encourage dialogue, listening and empathy. Collaborating with communities and researching sites of trauma, often associated with colonialism, war and displacement, Nguyen poignantly loops and weaves together memory, history and the present to speculate possible futures.

Nguyen’s new sculptures were developed in relation to his 2022 film ‘The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon’. The film reflects the resilience of the communities in Quang Tri – a province in Vietnam that is one of the heaviest bombed regions in history. Though Vietnam is no longer at war, the remnants of the American bombings more than half a century ago is a present reality for those who have lost limbs and lives due to unexploded ordnance (UXO) scattered throughout the region. The fictional film centers on Nguyet, a troubled young woman who buys and sells bomb metal. Nguyet makes mobile sculptures from the bomb material and learns how to tune them to frequencies that promote healing. Believing she is the reincarnation of Alexander Calder, Nguyet embarks on a meaningful journey that culminates in finding peace for her and her family.

Nguyen regards UXO as a form of memory, relics embedded in the earth that bear witness to history and countless stories untold. The new mobiles at Frieze Seoul represent the renewal of once destructive materials. Each work, tuned to various frequencies, will reverberate with sound during the fair. 

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