EXHIBITION THU-VAN TRAN "WE LIVE IN BRILLIANCE"

10 JUNE - 1 OCTOBER 2023

MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART

In the summer of 2023, MAMAC is offering an exhibition dedicated to the artist Thu-Van Tran, the artist's first major museum monograph in France after his participation in the MAMAC collective exhibition "Cosmogonies, au gré des elements" in the summer of 2018.

A great artist on the French scene, Thu-Van Tran now enjoys international recognition. She presented a masterful installation in 2017 at the Venice Biennale; she was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2018 and has just completed a major in situ commission at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

The exhibition highlights the main aspects of his work: an artistic universe imbued with his dual Franco-Vietnamese culture; the common history of the two countries and the visible or invisible heritage still inscribed in the language, the bodies in Vietnam; the sustainable transformation of landscapes and the issues raised around living organisms. The exhibition will interweave historical narratives and personal mythologies, existing works and new productions.

"The project I want to design at MAMAC will address the issue of our natural and environmental ecosystem, which has become unstable and mutating since the upheavals caused by the economic and political stakes of our modern world. While making a shift towards poetic considerations: the intrinsic powers of a sovereign, enchanting nature, which switches from a material resource to a spiritual and mystical resource, a place of myths and possible imaginations. These are necessary for the construction of one's own individual mythology. »
Thu-Van Tran.

The artist is represented by Almine Rech, Paris; Meessen de Clercq, Brussels and Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich.

Curating the exhibition

Hélène Guenin, Director of MAMAC
Olivier Bergesi, Project Manager