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Art Salon Team- Apr 28
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Trần Lương:
Tầm Tã - Soaked in the Long Rain
19 DEC 2024 - 18 MAY 2025
‘Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain’ is the first international survey exhibition of Vietnamese contemporary artist Trần Lương.
Spanning painting, installation, performance, community engagement and institution-making, the exhibition delves into Trần’s life and work. It traces his beginnings as a painter, his move towards conceptual and performance art, and his foundational and complex role within the Vietnamese contemporary art scene and the wider Southeast Asian region. The exhibition showcases Trần’s multifaceted practice; one shaped by political and social transitions in Vietnam, and informed by his multifaceted roles as activist, curator, facilitator, archivist and mentor.
From his lyrical paintings – drawing on memories of a childhood spent on the move and hiding from U.S. bombs in the Vietnamese countryside – to his high-energy single-man participatory performances, Trần’s outputs span a wide range.
Trần is also an active protagonist in Hanoi, and Vietnam’s cultural ecology. His contributions include co-founding the experimental art space Nhà Sàn Studio in 1998, establishing the Contemporary Art Center Hanoi in 2000, and leading the currently active APD Center. Through organizing and curating numerous exhibitions and projects—most notably ‘Lim Dim’, Vietnam’s first performance arts festival in 2004—he has demonstrated his commitment to furthering the place of art in Vietnam and fostering an understanding of the role and responsibility of artists within that context.
‘Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain’ is curated by Biljana Ciric and co-organised by Art Jameel, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre and The Art Gallery of Western Australia, where the exhibition will be touring from 2025 to 2027.
About Jameel Arts Centre
Art Jameel supports artists and creative communities. Founded and supported by the Jameel family philanthropies, the independent organisation is headquartered in Saudi Arabia and the UAE and works globally. Art Jameel’s programmes – across exhibitions, commissions, research, learning and community-building – are grounded in a dynamic understanding of the arts as fundamental to life and accessible to all.
Art Jameel’s two institutions – Hayy Jameel, a dedicated complex for the arts and creativity in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Jameel Arts Centre, an innovative contemporary institution in Dubai, UAE – are complemented by digital initiatives plus collaborations with major institutional partners and a network of practitioners across the world.
Art Jameel’s model is collaborative: major institutional partners include Delfina Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Locally, the organisation works with individuals and organisations to develop innovative programming that embraces both ancient and new technologies, and encourages entrepreneurship and the development of cultural networks.
(Source: https://artjameel.org/about/art-jameel/)
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