I personally love the work of Tiffany Chung, a young Vietnamese artist whom I discovered last year at Art Dubai exhibiting with Tyler Rollins, a New York gallery. This year, the gallery brought her work back to the fair with this series: finding one's shadow in ruins and rubble, which opened as a solo show in New York this week.
The entire series is multi-media works relating to the lingering effects of three natural and manmade disasters: the 1995 earthquake that devastated Kobe, Japan; the current conflict in Syria; and the battlefields of the Vietnam War.
Many regional viewers will surely find her work on Syria interesting. She presents of light boxes, arranged like a chaotic cityscape, containing haunting images of the contemporary ruins of the Syrian city Homs, a poignant meditation on loss and shattered polity.
For the rest of the show she uses archival video and photography as well as her characteristic map drawings, which I was so charmed by when I first saw them.
Chung is based in Ho Chi Minh City and is one of Vietnam’s most prominent and internationally active contemporary artists. She will present a new project in the upcoming Venice Biennale as part of the exhibition All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor (May 9 – Nov. 22).
* finding one's shadow in ruins and rubble runs until May 30 at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York's Chelsea art district. For more info visit: trfineart.com
