“The man who fell asleep, and the door that opened to an unnamed place” – an object that is at once a relic and a portal, opening the possibility of traveling through time, so long as one knows precisely where and when they wish to arrive. Through this doorway, the viewer steps into a suspended landscape of memory, where time slips, bends, and refracts. There, a man drifts into sleep, the book sliding from his hand; a woman enters quietly, stealing the heart he has left unguarded. The work evokes a liminal threshold, where reality and illusion dissolve into one another, and the line between presence and remembrance slowly unravels.

 

In reality, the four hidden photographs were taken spontaneously without arrangement by the artist, in early 2020: the moment that the artist’s parents resting during the funeral of her grandfather. The other door carries a portrait of the grandfather as a young man, and his four daughters. An old calendar was found in the suitcase he left behind.

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Exhibition: “Dạ Lửa – Womb of Fire”, featuring 100 works by Vietnamese and diasporic Vietnamese women and non-binary artists,  organized and collaborated by Mo Art Space (Hanoi), Vin Gallery and Gallery Medium (Ho Chi Minh City). Initiated by curator Đỗ Tường Linh, with the support of Nguyễn Vũ Thiên An and Carmen Cortizas.

Photo credit: Mo Art Space.

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