Tuan Mami July 20
One-person
exhibit for a Kamikaze show at PØST
Durational
Performance
This is about what we physically/mentally
are dealing with.
This is about
trying-dealing-facing-challenging between oneself and the others.
This is about the limited
and unlimited.
This is about being conscious
and unconscious.
This is about
fragility-exhaustion-resistance-punishment.
Tuan
Mami
Lives and works in Hanoi, Vietnam
Studied at Hanoi Fine
Art University and currently is a visiting faculty at SFAI, San Francisco, CA
My interest lies in engaging in ongoing experiments as
means to creating and exploring new conceptions of interaction and exchange. My
works often present a view in form like two sides of a coin; one, analyzing the
condition of our encounters with each other, which often is a critique of the
present state of society; the other, responding to and attempting to shift or
change current forms of relation.
My work deals with questions about life, meaning
and social interactions between people. I re-construct a situation into which I
engage people or objects from particular reality to enter and involve with me
in a social process. “Art is like a game” which transforms one thing into
another whether it deals with a big issue or a neglected one. What is life?
What is art? What is the artwork? Who is the artist? ... I consider doing art
as a way of challenging perception, to work with and follow the fast changes in
life. I challenge myself to see other sides of things and find relationships
between life and art.
My works are site-specific, and re-constructional concept.
I’m influenced by reality and I question it: what should we think to fit
ourselves into the whole? I want to reconstruct a complex correlation between
human desire and natural resource.
