<em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 6</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 4</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 10</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 23</em> <em>The State of Absence… Euphoria in Passing #1</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 2</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 5</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 8</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 9</em> <em>The shadow in the garden 2, meditation on similarity, the four seasons and the elements</em> <em>Shadows in the Garden #2 no. 7</em> <em>Portrait of a deforming symbol. Lost and Found</em>

Truong Cong Tung

Truong Cong Tung (b. 1986, Vietnam) grew up in Dak Lak among various ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. He graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2010, majoring in lacquer painting. With research interests in science, cosmology, philosophy and the environment, Truong Cong Tung works with a range of media, including video, installation, painting and found objects, which reflect personal contemplations on the cultural and geopolitical shifts of modernization, as embodied in the morphing ecology, belief or mythology of a land. He is also a member of Art Labor (founded in 2012), a collective working between visual art and social and life sciences to produce alternative non-formal knowledge via artistic and cultural activities in various public contexts and locales.

Truong Cong Tung has exhibited extensively in Vietnam and abroad as a solo artist and as part of Art Labor Collective. Selected exhibitions include The Disoriented Garden… A Breath of Dream, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2024; Trương Công Tùng, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, 2023; O Quilombismo, Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Flight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2023; Signals…瞬息, Para Site, Hong Kong, 2023; Is it morning for you yet?, 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA, 2022; A State of Absence…Words out there, Manzi Art Space, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2021; The Sap Still Runs, San Art, HCMC, Vietnam, 2019; The Bangkok Art Biennale, Bangkok, Thailand, 2018; Between Fragmentation and Wholeness, Galerie Quynh, HCMC, Vietnam, 2018; A Beast, a God, and a Line, Para Site, Hong Kong; the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; the Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2018; and Cosmopolis, Collective Intelligence, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2017. In 2023, Tung received the Han Nefkens Foundation – Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant.

Studio visit with Truong Cong Tung

This video is part of a series of interviews with artists in the Nguyen Art Foundation collection