Site-specific painting installation.
Medium: silk, 95,000 silver leaves and not-to-know-yet what materials will be applied during the ongoing process.
Silverleaf on silk technique and execution: Nguyễn Hải Đăng, Dương Trần Quỳnh Nam, Lê Đình Toàn, Trần Bích Hà, Nguyễn Thanh Thuý, Nguyễn Tiến Vùng, Vũ Thị Hà.

Description

The work poems of the sky is the only work created specifically for the exhibition space, and is also a work born through continuing dialogues. While working on Soaked in emptiness, Ly saw that sawdust, when covered with lacquer paint, lingered like clouds. The clouds immediately connected her to Georgia O'Keeffe and her meticulous work on golden clouds in Sky Above Clouds IV. Ly wanted to converse with O'Keeffe through her own clouds. She used the entire space of the wall facing the sky at Sàn Art to create a site- specific dimension for her sky with the clouds made with 95 thousand silver leaves. Perhaps the initial, simple purpose was just to have a dialogue with an artist whose thickness of works comes from a deep connection from inner depth to everything around, bringing respect and inspiration that transcend borders and generations, then maybe in that way, she continues to look for the red thread inside, or maybe she just wants to use that excuse for herself and the audience to look up at the sky, to see, and to think. Then, perhaps over time these works will have a life of their own, they will be born and mature so that their life will no longer depend on the presence of the artist. Maybe they continue to be interacted with, reminded of, but maybe they will fade into oblivion, like any poem read under the sky. At the end of the road, the red thread will follow the blue ball and fly back to the sky.

Description is excerpted from "Poems of the sky" Exhibition Booklet, 2023, p.32.