Installation of six panels of 60 x 90 cm each piece, total 90 x 360 cm.
Mixed medium (durational performance on traditional lacquer and saw dust of old trees being cut on Tôn Đức Thắng street).
Collective performances and assistants: Nguyễn Hải Đăng, Dương Trần Quỳnh Nam, Võ Thị Thanh Tuyền, Lê Đình Toàn.

Description

The element of time in Soaked in emptiness is crystalised through layers of lacquer, where each layer has a life of its own, created of sunlight through the window on the board, then invited her friends to join in the performance. She read her poem composed during the process of making So, we became machines and the participants took notes with lacquer paint, then covered those words with sawdust, then tapped with hammers, followed with the words being distorted making the sawdust cluster like small graves, or golden clouds. After drying, the sawdust is brushed away, leaving the letters exposed... Then continue the process of applying paints, waiting for it to dry, hammering, then applying again. If previous performances were documented through the language of video, Soaked in emptiness uses the patient and repetitive natures of artistic labour in lacquer as a pace and condition for the performance.

Description is excerpted from "Poems of the sky" Exhibition Booklet, 2023, p. 13-15.