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MAYA NGUYEN


Based in Chicago, b. 1996, VN/RUS, Interdisciplinary Performer. Nguyen incorporates disparate (and often clashing) material sources into forms that remain conceptually indeterminate, such as performance lectures, sound improvisation, and participatory sculptural interventions. Her favored materials include: speech fragments, mistranslations, painful sounds, urban recordings, sounds imitating nature sounds, breast pump parts, internet debris, and videos of daily life.
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Video (06:15min)

Group Exhibition
Yes Projects Chicago, US
Dec 2025 - Feb 2026

︎︎︎https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVtzDnSrLho

An empty shell rocks back and forth on four asynchronous screens, each one slightly displaced from the other in time. Some are known to rock as a way to self-soothe.