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In the works of Vy Trinh, the streets are not just places to pass through but a living environment that borrows and morphs materials, creating methodologies and sculptures through the bundling and stacking of commodities that spill out of shop fronts to flood pavements. Reappropriating highly manufactured objects and media as raw materials, Trinh grinds, bends, wraps, ties, burnishes, and adds bling.

In a series of preparatory sketches for her installations, the sinuous coils and curves of metal strips burst into cosmic powdery showers. On the surface of the paper, the engineering parts, gears and ordinary household items that Trinh assembles in her sculptures take on an air of intrigue and possibility. Tracing the life cycles of commercial goods, material ecologies and local economies, Vy Trinh captures the negotiations and improvisations that constantly occur between these interconnected sites.