The hand of a child


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.


Installation view of exhibition "Assemblage: Me, my story and I", Dogma Prize, 2023.

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Kinetic installation.
Objects, spare parts from broken electronic devices found at scrap sites.

Statement

This kinetic installation re-enacts the scene of a classroom in the memories of a left-hander confronted by the challenges in a world of dominant right-handers. It tells the childhood traumas of a little child, forced to learn how to survive, because of his own inherent trait of which he couldn't rid of. The repeated movements of the two left hands configure a realm of asymmetry in which the boundaries between left/right-right/wrong are re-acknowledged in opposition to the misguided standards imposed on the left-handers. The wiggling scribbles are internal monologues about a child's dreams of becoming a painter, mindfully inscribed so that they can be sent to the artist of now, whose aspirations still traverse between past and future.

Statement is excerpted from “Assemblage: Me, my story and I" Exhibition Booklet, 2023, p.26.

Dogma Prize
, 2023
The hand of a child, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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