Nguyễn Quốc Chánh

practice

le mot+++ and sàn art are pleased to present guerilla tactics , the first solo exhibition of ceramics by vietnamese artist nguyễn quốc chánh. attentive to the position of biên hoà ceramics in global and nationalist imaginings, chánh writes in his artist’s statement, “rather than nostalgic reproductions or subcontracted production, i make use of local clay, glazes, and techniques to evoke biên hòa’s eclectic tendencies blurring the boundaries between artisanal craft and art, between sentiment and concept”. for nguyễn quốc chánh to align his latest series of ceramic sculptures with the idea of a ‘guerilla’ mentality, is to place them firmly within vietnamese history and cultural memory. in chánh’s guerrilla operation, they now become material for new purposes, positioned alongside more contemporary symbols on a shared substrate: casts of credit cards, face molds of football-playing children and images borrowed from the facets of bến thành market.

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