Ufologie

Tuan Andrew Nguyen (born 1976, Sài Gòn, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American artist known for moving-image works, sculptures and installations. His work taps into counter-memory, testimony and dialogue as forms of political resistance and empowerment, highlighting unofficial and underrepresented histories involving the fragmented consciousness of colonial inheritance and the cultural estrangement of expatriation and repatriation.

Nguyen’s « Unburied Sounds » (2022, James Cohan) was an exhibition of video and sculptural works (used in the video) crafted from fragments of discarded Vietnam War remnants. Weaving fiction, folkloric ghost stories, history and testimony, the show explored the ways in which material contains memory and holds potential for salvation, healing and reincarnation—often through transformation by art.

These mobiles seem to channel the aesthetics and perhaps the spirit of sculptor Alexander Calder, who campaigned against the war in the 1960s.