The work Text dives deeply into the origin of language and meaning as a way to investigate its ability to mutate and transform. From a dictionary definition of the word “text” found on the Internet, Nguyen Kim Duy hand–traces the perimeter of each word that makes up the definition of “text” from the original version over numerous copies, until the drawings become nothing but deformed dark shapes and silhouettes – standing in stark contrast with the transparency of the tracing paper they are copied on to. With Text, the artist illuminates the ontology of linguistic study, sarcastically imitating the process of mechanical reproduction to reflect the impact of industrial development on the way we communicate and perceive our surrounding world.