





Trương Công Tùng
1-channel video (sound, color), 69 minutes.
Further images
"The video work is inspired by the idea of an ancient, untamed garden as a fertile ground for co-existing (his)stories, time periods, human and non-human entities, each imprinted in a fictitious space, which is an abstract portrait of the country. Visitors can approach the individual artwork or the overall installation from different perspectives: the anthropological, the poetic, the historic, the ecological and the dreamt one. Spots of light in the video (spirits? Our consciousness? A camera fault?), insects, forest sounds, grass, cascades, animals and plants are all interlocutors in the epic retelling of a land. The video consists of various scenes that are unrelated to one another in both mood and style, and have no traditional narrative linking them together, apart from being filmed in different parts of the Central Highlands. Nevertheless, by bringing these imagescapes together, the artist succeeds in creating a meditative space — a dream mode — that allows us to navigate and understand the area’s various realities..."
Bart van der Heide, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano Bozen, Italy
Exhibitions
Han Nefkens Foundation–Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2023.2024-2025 - exhibited at Sàn Art (Vietnam), Sa Sa Art Projects (Cambodia), Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand), Museion (Italy), Busan Museum of Art (South Korea) and Prameya Art Foundation (India).