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MAYA NGUYEN


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