Nguyen Huy An
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Study of The Fluctuation of a Shadow
A Ă Â… is the collection of 29 alphabetical letters and six tones in the Vietnamese script, carefully extracted from the propaganda slogans drawn on the walls of different villages across North Vietnam. This act is a removal of word structure, bringing the letters back to their basic linguistic origin, before they were used to construct a political meaning. Yet the letters still bear their historical traces on their surfaces, regardless of the defective statements the slogans have become.
(Edited from text excerpts provided by the artist and Galerie Quynh)