Featured as part of Indra's Net – a focused section of Frieze London curated by Sandhini Poddar (Adjunct Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi) - Galerie Quynh is pleased to present two new works by Tuan Andrew Nguyen.
The contemplative and tranquil kinetic sculptures entitled Broken Into A Thousand Arms and I Dreamt I Was A Butterfly Or A Bomb (2022), reflect Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s inexhaustible fascination with material animism and reincarnation. Through these works, Nguyen reimagines the possible afterlife of deadly unexploded ordnances (UXO) still buried underground in many provinces in central Vietnam decades after the war. The destructive weapons are transformed into objects with healing qualities, creating a space for rethinking history, mending broken bonds, and suggesting a different future.
