Jun Nguyen‐Hatsushiba

b. 1968, lives and works Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Jun Nguyen‐Hatsushiba works with video, installation and performance using allegorical imagery to explore the impacts of war, mass migration and social change that have taken place in Vietnam and across the world over the past few decades. Renowned for his video works filmed underwater, in which rickshaw drivers, dragon performers and painters create poetic memorials to past events, Nguyen‐Hatsushiba has also created large fields of water bottles and globes that consider globalisation, human displacement and the role of the mass media. Solo exhibitions Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2008); The Asia Society, New York, United States (2008); Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (2007).

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The Ground, the Root, and the Air: The Passing of the Bodhi Tree 2004-2007
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high definition digital video projection duration 14:30 minutes Courtesy the artist, The Quiet in the Land, Laos; Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York