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geekgirl :mastodon: on Nostr: Mai Nguyễn-Long's The Vomit Girl Project Installation has arrived! Part of the Asia ...

Mai Nguyễn-Long's The Vomit Girl Project Installation has arrived! Part of the Asia Pacific Triennial now showing at #QAGOMA.
The #art encompasses a selection of clay characters inspired by đình wood carvings and a Vietnamese rural aesthetic known as mộc mạc. Mộc mạc is generally translated as rough, rustic or even uncouth. To the #artist, however, it is an earthy aesthetic guided by practical principles of survival, providing a primordial link to Indigenous Vietnamese nature-spirit consciousness & mother goddess practices in Vietnam. Nguyễn-Long’s The Vomit Girl Project is a way for the artist to unpack her conflicted relationship with her Vietnamese heritage & is connected to notions of resistance, belonging & self-determination. Fluid associations & playful & unorthodox expressions of Buddhism inform her clay-building method.
Nguyễn-Long’s vomit motif becomes an ambiguous and tongue-like form, representing one’s mother tongue, as well as those who have lost their mother tongue.