Blowing/Breathing


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.

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Statement

Each time that I exhale, the balloon expands, but my body gradually disappears behind it as a result. The video's moving images remind me of the passage of time. How many breaths can the balloon contain until I stop breathing entirely?

The use of my own bodily struggle to illustrate the blowing /breathing effort, that seems to proceed in such a blur, echoes my constant mediation with life and with art practice full of confusion and solitude. While the world keeps moving along with torrential flows of information and catalysts, I become paralysed.

The video medium helps to capture the authentic sensations of the performance, at the same time provides me with a frame to compose my oeuvre of images.

Statement is excerpted from “Assemblage: Me, my story and I" Exhibition Booklet, 2023, p.11.

Dogma Prize
, 2023
Blowing/Breathing, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
https://www.dogmacollection.com/