The exhibition "Non dénommée" by artist Tanguy Sévat-Denuet is the result of a two-month residency at Villa Saigon, an artist-in-residence program of the French Institute in Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. The project was selected from nearly 200 applications submitted to the French Institute in Vietnam this year, with the aim of strengthening and promoting artistic dialogue between France and Vietnam.
At the exhibition, the audience will be invited to visit a house to find an intimate subject that belongs to the family, but is not named in the public space.
Sound installation exhibition "Non dénommée" organized by the French Institute of Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City
"Non dénommée" is a journey of exploring identity through art and dialogue. The diverse identities collected by artist Tanguy form a generational story rooted in the history of Indochina during the French colonial period, an unnamed story passed down from generation to generation in families, where traces of mixed race are sometimes hidden and sometimes revealed in each generation.
The project addresses the awareness of the concerns of future generations who want to learn about their family history but are faced with the loss of the very people who made the memories in that origin story.
How is our identity constructed at the dawn of the 21st century and what are the ways in which this Franco-Vietnamese heritage is transmitted, how has that identity been shaped through the process of forgetting or denying, accepting or affirming?
Artist Tanguy said the reason he did this project was because this is a trend that has been quite popular in France recently and he wanted to bring it to Vietnam. Luckily, the project was approved by the French Institute in Vietnam.
The rooms are arranged in the exhibition space "Non dénommée"
Visiting the exhibition, the audience also experiences connection through the faces representing four or five generations. Each generation is linked by the movements, movements, escapes, or displacements of a Vietnamese woman.
Coming to the exhibition space, following the stairs of the Museum, listening and following the sounds and voices from each room, where photos are displayed, conversations, chairs representing each position of family members in each generation... Follow and immerse yourself in the joy and laughter between generations when they reunite.
Each room, each story, each person… are all coincidences that Tanguy encounters, but they are also the sources of confidence for his project. The connection between the rooms is thanks to this coincidental connection, a seemingly loose but convincing connection.
"Identities are built gradually, through encounters, journeys, stages of life. Joelle and her two children, Zachary and Louna, each present what makes them who they are today and especially what each keeps from their mother or grandmother. What has ultimately been passed down from Vietnamese culture? Everyone has their own flashbacks." This is the story from a room in the exhibition "Non dénommée".
The exhibition is the beginning of an unfinished art project by artist Tanguy Sévat-Denuet. After this exhibition, he will continue the source of the project so that through each story in his series of projects, people can find and know about the connections that have existed, the transmission from previous generations to the next generations about their origins, about what has not yet been clarified...
The exhibition is on display at the Southern Women's Museum, open to visitors until June 30, 2024./.
Source: https://toquoc.vn/kham-pha-danh-tinh-thong-qua-nghe-thuat-va-doi-thoai-20240626112118357.htm
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