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Unlike the younger Saigon, Hanoi is a city with a very old established history. For me Hanoi is like a living body which is beautiful but whose form is shaped by the variability of the times. Hanoi is where layers of era and history, comings and goings, cascade like the geological stratum of time. Looking at the signs of fracture and remnents of an old Hanoi mixed with the symbols and imagines of the modern age makes me feel like I’m excavating through historic layers of the metropolis. So I think of Hanoi as a living museum that embodies the complete archive of past memories and assimilates the flowing and changing rhythms of contemporary life. This very concept and approach forms the background of my artistic projects. As if a debtor to the city, I tirelessly seek out and decipher the tenous linkages between the remaining visual signs of the past etched upon the facades of the structures and thing that that arrive all at once, then all of disappear in the relentless spiraling circle of today’s consumption society. Every project comes to me as a way to find new material, language or approach that is capable of delivering what I want to demonstrate. It can be silk painting, photography, calligraphy, installation art, videos or even a new visual language I call photo relief. Each artistic project raises a question to me and the audience about Hanoi’s values, the values of cultural and living spaces that we used to have and trying to build today, and what they will become in the future.

Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015
Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015
Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015
Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015
Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015
Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015
Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015
Ha noi- A living museum-Hanoi Old Quarter Cultural Exchange Center 2015

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