Mixed-media (Found bricks, epoxy resin, light). Installation dimensions variable.
Description
‘As I stand on the upper citadel and look at the houses that are still inhabited next to those being demolished; the wreckage of a way of life; and the brutal, inevitable nature of change, I think of the next journey and incarnation of those people and objects [...] As I stand on the upper citadel, at the threshold between the past and present, I am reminded that “Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form.”’
Using bricks collected from the outer citadel, Nguyễn Văn Hè assembled Rebirth, a sculptural installation with five pillars corresponding to the endless formation and transformation of all things that symbolize the notion of rebirth. ‘Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. Form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form.’ Considered the yin and yang of all matters, form and emptiness are always in constant flux. All forms shall dissolve into emptiness, then from emptiness, forms shall emerge once again. And it’s the human hand that creates and destroys everything.
Description from No more, not yet Exhibition Catalog, 2023.
