Artist Talk with Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Join us for an artist talk by exhibiting artist Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi about her experimental documentary film Into The Violet Belly in the exhibition, The blue of the sky depends on the darkness of empty space behind it.
Interweaving family lore, mythology, science fiction, and digital abstraction, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s 2022 film Into The Violet Belly follows the collaboration between the artist and her mother, Thuyen Hoa, who fled Vietnam after the end of the American War via a near-calamitous sea journey. Oscillating between voices, visual registers, and timescales—was it seven months or seven thousand years?— Into The Violet Belly offers up an image of its multiplicitous structure: a massive digital swarm, tiny avatars of migrating bodies, swimming in an infinite blue.