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@Sàn Art

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To mark the last day of our programme ‘Video Journey’ in collaboration with Kyoto Art Center (Japan), Sàn Art is organising a dual screening event presenting works from both sides of the exchange. 

This will be the last chance for visitors to check out Sàn Art’s curated selection of video works by artists Hanae Utamura, Ishu Han and Yoshinori Niwa, as well as Kyoto Art Center’s programme – presented at their space in Kyoto between January 18 and February 9, 2025 – of Vietnamese artists Nguyen Trinh Thi, Phan Anh, Xuan Ha, Lena Bui and Nguyen Hoang Giang. 

Each screening will last approximately 2 hours with a break in-between. Due to limited space, visitors are encouraged to register beforehand and select the screening they wish to attend. 

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In ‘Spring Water, Fault, Body’, Utamura combines her father’s diary, scientific research, existential reckoning, and excerpts of a group performance in order to tap into the paradoxical nature of nuclear research, while she shows the reverse side of the coin in ‘Walk for Life’, a poignant documentary looking at the devastating aftermath of the 2011 Triple Disaster that struck Japan. Niwa’s ‘Purchasing My Own Belongings Again in the Downtown’ and Han’s ‘A Dream About Stopping the Waves’ are characteristic of their documented performance works highlighting the absurd and repetitive aspects of the human condition. Niwa’s ‘Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage’ uses video to record a social experiment: can naming something (literally) become a first step towards solving unnamed problems in our society? Lastly, in ‘Secret Performance Series’ and ‘A Person Cleans the Waves’, Utamura and Han both contend with the greater forces of nature as their relentless labour only exposes our futile and inconsequential being. 

> Utamura Hanae – Spring Water, Fault, Body 

> Utamura Hanae – Walk for Life 

> Niwa Yoshinori – Purchasing My Own Belongings Again in the Downtown 

> Han Ishu – A Dream About Stopping the Waves

> Niwa Yoshinori – Selling the Right to Name a Pile of Garbage 

> Utamura Hanae – Secret Performance Series 

> Han Ishu – A Person Cleans the Waves

** Language: Japanese, with English & Vietnamese subtitles.

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“Nguyen Trinh Thi questions the disconnect between individual and collective history by juxtaposing films and videos depicting Vietnamese history with personal history. Xuân-Hạ’s work is inspired by the “ferryman” who collects information on the graves of those who lost their lives fighting for national liberation and connects them with the bereaved families. Lena Bui examines the representation of “nature” in video works set in Vietnam and asks questions about the consumption of visual images in contemporary society. Nguyen Hoang Giang examines how new technology affects people in contemporary society. Phan Anh’s work is a story of the artist’s own childhood memories and post-growth reality, composed as a narrative in which reality and fiction intersect.” – Kyoto Art Center

> Nguyen Trinh Thi – Everyday’s the Seventies 

> Xuân-Hạ – A Ferry Man

> Lena Bui – Light

> Lena Bui – Precious. Rare. For Sale.

> Nguyen Hoang Giang – Il Provino (The Audition)

> Nguyen Hoang Giang – Human Learning

> Phan Anh – Confronting oneself in the state of presence

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This project was made possible with the support of The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam.