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Nguyen Thuy Hang creates imaginative spaces through her writing, while giving physical form to her fictional characters through sculpture and painting. In her installation, these hybrid figures – half-human, half-animal – hover in mid-air, emerge from beneath the ground, or protrude from everyday objects. Their forms are at once organic and fantastical, as if drawn from fairytales or folklore.

In Chair, one armrest is missing while a bird’s head rises from the back: a lone figure caught in solitude, waiting for eternity; its gaze transfixed on the ceaseless passage of time. Shaped by the artist’s hands as she removes what is deemed unnecessary and reshapes it into a new form, the work embodies the act of translating memory into sculpture and grief into tangible materiality. The use of paper and wood – materials that naturally decay over time – captures the paradoxic nature of memory: fleeting yet persisting, fragile yet weighty, invisible yet ever-present.