Oil on canvas.

Description

Ceremony in the dawn and Lab in the jungle are part of a Pinhole painting series* by artist Hoàng Dương Cầm. In this series of paintings, the artist used a pinhole camera to capture images he encountered during his research on family history. The resulting image becomes suggestible to the painting composition. Though painted with a very thin layer of colour, the visual is accentuated to a certain level of depth. Another layer of colour is placed over the figure layer, like foils embracing past images, telltales of both personal history's connotations and historical overview of a period. 

*The title of the painting series is named by the artist. Pinhole camera is a simple photographic device without a lens.

Description is excerpted from "Stratum Zero" Exhibition Guide, 2023, p. 12.