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MAYA NGUYEN



MN is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on critical sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters into open-ended compositions. These often take the shape of performance lectures, sound installations, movement works, and videos.

But no single material choice defines her practice. Instead, she works through ambiguity and interaction across borders: making a commitment of not committing to just one side, but to a multiplicity of sides; to the mix of different sound channels; to the touch of different bodies. Through these material interactions, she exposes power relations inherent in human interaction and the environments that facilitate these interactions, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial histories, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world.



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WHEN RED BECAME THE COLOUR OF ANGELS


“HOPE” says one t-shirt. “I <3 MUM & DAD” says another. And “LIFE IS BETTER WITH NAPS”. 

Cut-outs of clothing, together with their slogans and logos and aspirations, are archived from hundreds of videos posted on social media by reporters, bystanders, and witnesses in Gaza since 2023. You are invited to read through the various entries placed neatly in rows on the floor.