Installation of fresh grass, sound, water. Grass dimensions 384 x 52.5 cm

Variable dimensions depending on time and space.

Description

Game Starts reveals to be a grass cut out of a human shadow, which in fact was Huy’s own. Right above locates a tap that is dripping at an incredibly slow, measured pace rendering the presence of the droplets fathomable only when the water hits the grass ground. A sensual, seemingly delicate collision of force and materiality can still result in significant friction as time goes by. In order to inspect the work, visitors are required to cram inside the room and tread carefully around it, which in turn traps them in a simulation of the here-and-now experience. The body is still nowhere to be seen, but its double has finally materialised. In the coexistence of movement and idleness – enabled and punctuated by the rhythmic trickling of water – questions about what kind of information a shadow can reveal and what it is missing arise.

Description by curator Linh Lê excerpted from "Soon The Time Will Come" Exhibition Catalog, 2023, p.20.