THINH NGUYEN

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Hello! My name is Thinh Nguyen. My art explores the varying relationships between my culture and identity.

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+ When I get home

+ 2022

+ Mixed Media

+ When I get home is an exploration of different aspects of what is home to me, the places that Ive been, the relationships that I had, and even just the idea of home. Over the years, after leaving the country that I grew up in, came to the states with nothing but memories. Now that I live in the states, I feel the absence of home, the mundane, the everyday people, and the architecture that I was surrounded with; to me, those things became my home, and they are the highest innovation of me. In this series of work, these reimaginations of my “home” was built upon memories with a touch of where I lived and the life that I lived. These things have treated me kind, kept me grounded, and molded me into the person that I am today. Thus, I can’t help but keep longing for a secure place that I can call “home.” Sometimes, home can be a relationship or the feelings of daydreaming. Toxic temporary relationships just to find comfort within myself, losing self-control, and nothing but despair has developed a fear of power, of not being in control of my body which is my own “home”. “When I get home” is a map of me finding my way back home to reconnect with myself. Therefore, myself is the home that I go to, the hardest person to please, the loneliest place but the only love that I have left. My body and mind are where I learn and unlearning many things to answer the questions, the fears, and a sense of self. At last, When I get home is the love letter, a reflection, where I find groundedness and a sense of home wherever I am.

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+ No Ne

+ 2022

+ Photography

+ “No Nê” meaning full, with vintage photography, I utilize portraiture of traditional Vietnamese objects such as Herbs, Boiled Chicken, ambarella, Betel leaves, and a traditional pastry called bánh da lợn. Each object presents its own flavor like sweet, sour, spicy, salty, and bitter.They are personified to symbolize the range of ones emotions or often use to describe stages of life like moments of sweetness, or bitterness that we taste when were low in life and spiciness through our life often use in Vietnamese belief.