Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Radiant Remembrance

Tuan Andrew Nguyen is a Vietnamese artist who uses collaborative community engagement and archival research to highlight unofficial and suppressed histories, reworking dominant narratives into stories that propose creative forms of healing intergenerational trauma. His 2023 New Museum presentation is his first US solo museum exhibition, showcasing a new film, two recent video projects, and works from his sculptural and object-based practice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2023
Publisher: New Museum of Contemporary Art,U.S.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a Vietnamese artist born in 1976, employs a collaborative interdisciplinary approach to address suppressed histories and heal intergenerational trauma. Through collaborative community engagement and extensive archival research, Nguyen develops projects that highlight unofficial and suppressed narratives. By interweaving fact and fiction, often incorporating mythologies from otherworldly realms, Nguyen reworks dominant narratives into stories that propose creative forms of healing the intergenerational traumas of colonialism, war, and displacement. Nguyen's 2023 New Museum presentation, his first US solo museum exhibition, showcases a new film, two recent video projects, "The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon" (2022) and "The Specter of Ancestors Becoming" (2019), alongside works from his sculptural and object-based practice. Drawing upon conceptual threads from across the Global South, Nguyen's exhibition sparks a dialogue on inherited memory and testimony as forms of resistance and empowerment.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a Vietnamese artist born in 1976, employs a collaborative interdisciplinary approach to address suppressed histories and heal intergenerational trauma. Through collaborative community engagement and extensive archival research, Nguyen develops projects that highlight unofficial and suppressed narratives. By interweaving fact and fiction, often incorporating mythologies from otherworldly realms, Nguyen reworks dominant narratives into stories that propose creative forms of healing the intergenerational traumas of colonialism, war, and displacement. Nguyen's 2023 New Museum presentation, his first US solo museum exhibition, showcases a new film, two recent video projects, "The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon" (2022) and "The Specter of Ancestors Becoming" (2019), alongside works from his sculptural and object-based practice. Drawing upon conceptual threads from across the Global South, Nguyen's exhibition sparks a dialogue on inherited memory and testimony as forms of resistance and empowerment.

Weight: 952g
Dimension: 187 x 247 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780915557301