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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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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.