Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi: The blue of the sky depends on the darkness of empty space behind it
Esker Foundation 444-1011 9 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0H7
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, “This undreamt of sail is watered by the white wind of the abyss,” 2022
installation view, Hamburger Bahnhof (courtesy of the artist) (Photo by: Jens Franke)
Opening Reception: Friday 24 January, 6-9pm
Interweaving family lore, mythology, science fiction, and digital abstraction, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s 2022 film Into The Violet Belly follows the collaboration between the artist and her mother, Thuyen Hoa, who fled Vietnam after the end of the American War via a near-calamitous sea journey. Oscillating between voices, visual registers, and timescales—was it seven months or seven thousand years?— Into The Violet Belly offers up an image of its multiplicitous structure: a massive digital swarm, tiny avatars of migrating bodies, swimming in an infinite blue.
