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Phuong Nguyen I Was Born Where You Are
Oct 9 – Dec 19
Calgary
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The Bows. ‘I Was Born Where You Are’ is a collection of work that explores the ‘peri-human’ through orientalism/ornamentalism and its relationship to colonial history through oil painting, sculpture, and weaving. Paintings of select objects are coded under the Western gaze to evoke a peri-human Southeast Asian woman. Porcelain, silk, delicate lotuses and other ornamental objects become alchemic attempts to evoke her presence and bring non-living objects to life. In symbiosis with these still lives, the idea of the swamp is explored as a site where death and life, like the peri-human subjects, exist simultaneously. The swamp is neither dead nor alive, but is home to a spectrum of both extremes, becoming a place where the lines dividing the past and future are blurred and undone. For the artist, it becomes a mirror to the self as a racialized other: a human subject turned into an object; under the Western gaze, is neither fully alive nor fully not-living.
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