Photomontage.

Description

Cầm traveled to Europe for the first time in 2007 as a Vietnamese artist participating in Migration Addicts, a satellite exhibition in conjunction with the Venice Biennale that year. There was no Vietnam Pavilion at the time, and no Vietnamese artist had ever participated in the Biennale. Cầm focused his interests on the issues of the boundaries that might or might not exist between worlds, landscapes, peoples, and even within the artist himself; this work is the first of the series. Cầm created an image of himself as part of the surrounding landscape, in this case the residential area where his group of artists was staying during the Venice Biennale, with the details appearing as if seen through a camera lens during an endoscopy. 

Description from "Vietnam in Transition, 1976–Present" Exhibition Catalog, 2023, p.24.