![]() ![]() Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York/Hong Kong/Seoul/London. As I take you through this journey of playing with the letter 'o', I'm also using it to describe personal stories and descriptions of different locales across Asia that I put together to explore and contemplate ideas about truth and beauty.Įxhibition view: Tammy Nguyen, O, Brooklyn Public Library, New York (19 September–3 December 2022). 'O' is round-it's a portal as well as a sound. The book O is called O in part cause 'o' acts as both an image and an opening. TNA lot of my work is an exploration of language and how language changes, transforms, and holds many different meanings. Can you talk about the ideas that drove these projects? Both expand upon the book format to become interactive conceptual objects in themselves. OMWhile the format of the artist's book is often seen as supplementary to a body of artworks, you have experimented with publication as an integral part of your practice, as with your artist book O (2022), published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and your four-part book collection Four Ways Through a Cave (2021). Published September 2022 by Ugly Duckling Presse. Breaking down references from the Space Race to the Singapore Strait, the Vietnam War to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nguyen imagines parallels between historic quests into space, medieval storytelling, and postwar legacies. Mirroring the three parts of Dante's epic ( Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso), Nguyen's Comedy for Mortals will unfold as three exhibitions over three years, continuing in London with A Comedy for Mortals: Purgatorio in March 2024, and culminating in 2025 with A Comedy for Mortals: Paradiso in New York.Īhead of her ICA Boston opening, Nguyen discusses with Ocula Magazine the research that has informed her ambitious new show. ![]() Nguyen's characteristic innovative publication design is seen in red leather covers, multiple fold-out 'wings', and use of techniques such as letterpress printing, laser cutting, collage, and intaglio. Her series of nine circular books lent a different way of engaging in Inferno. ![]() Leather, bookboard, suminagashi, intaglio, photogravure, letterpress, hot stamping, screen printing, laser cutting, and collage on masa paper. ![]()
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