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Künstler an diesem Ort:
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn

Künstler und Werk  

Ausstellung:
Journey Beyond the Arrow
Kuratorin: Zoe Butt

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn

* 1976 Saigon, Vietnam. Lebt in Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt, Vietnam.

The Specter of Ancestors Becoming. 2019
4-Kanal-Video-Installation: Farbe, 7.1 Surround Sound; Tintenstrahldruck auf Leinwand, Öl auf Leinwand, Graphit auf Papier, C-Prints, Sand; 28 Minuten.
Auftrag der Sharjah Art Foundation.
Produziert von der Sharjah Art Foundation mit Produktionshilfe des San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Courtesy Künstler und James Cohan, New York

Über das Werk

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s work explores notions of estrangement that give way to imaginaries, which, in turn, cut through dominant accounts of independence movements, expatriation, and Western and non-Western colonialisms.

The Specter of Ancestors Becoming (2019) continues on from the echoes of French colonial subjects. Senegalese soldiers, or tirailleurs, were among the forces deployed to Indochina to combat the Vietnamese uprising against French rule. During the war and after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu (when Frantz Fanon declared the beginning of the end of the French Empire), hundreds of Vietnamese women and their children migrated to West Africa with Senegalese husbands who had been stationed in Indochina. Many other soldiers left their wives and took only their children, while still others took mixed or Vietnamese children not their own and raised them in Senegal without connection to their origins.

Nguyễn was initially interested in accounts of tirailleurs sénégalais and indochinois fighting side by side during the two world wars and of tirailleurs sénégalais defecting to join Vietnamese revolutionary soldiers decades later. However, instead of stories of solidarity, he was confronted with the legacies of colonial prejudice, in which power plays across colour, class and faith complicated relations between native colonial subjects and their offspring. Nguyễn’s work is a collaboration with Vietnamese-Senegalese descendants who imagine scenes based on their desire to activate and reexamine their relationship to the past. Three writers in particular create imagined conversations with and between their parents or grandparents that highlight nuances in strategies of remembering. As narrators and actors, the voices of these descendants embody a historical conscience that challenges understandings of decolonising societies.

Text aus dem Sharjah Biennale 14 Guidebook
© 2019 Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennale 14:
Leaving the Echo Chamber

7. März - 10. Juni 2019

Über 80 Teilnehmer

Kuratorinnen, Kurator, Ausstellungen:

Zoe Butt: Journey Beyond the Arrow

Omar Kholeif: Making New Time

Claire Tancons: Look for Me All Around You


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