A solo exhibition
Agnes’s New Planets
Artist: Duong Thuy Duong | Duration: 27/09/2022 - 30/10/2022
Preface
Where do we come from? How do we define ourselves? Are we the product that we created? These are the questions which Duong Thuy Duong wants, together with the viewers, to try to reflect in this exhibition.
Taking the novel "Immortality" by author Milan Kundera as the point of departure - a story about love, the creator and the world, Duong Thuy Duong began her journey by creating dream images that captivated her soul. For the Exhibition at Mo Art Space, Thuy Duong invites viewers to take a deeper look into a world of the unknown through her new oil on canvas paintings, which she had been working on over the past three years. From luminous, fluorescent landscapes, disobeying the physical and chemical rules to the constantly changing, redefining of human corporalities and identities, Duong Thuy Duong opens dialogues and expresses her point of view about the paradox of our evolution intertwining with the development of technologies.
There's something about Duong Thuy Duong paintings that exudes a sense of humor, satire, and a reflection of the disparities in our society. Instead of using graphic software or modern techniques like other contemporary artists, Thuy Duong chose to go back to the basic tool of painting, which is colors and brushes. The paradox between the fictional theme and her classical artistic practice give impulse to contemplate more about contemporary society and art. Moreover, despite consequently following one subject, her paintings do not create a sense of restraint. The diversity in drawing techniques, has opened up more depth and complexity in the paintings.Thuy Duong wittily and ironically reflects today's art's dependence on technology unconsciously and also creates a surprise through her artistic choices.
