ARTWORKS Duong Thuy
No longer are there eyes to fill the false reality and the inescapable plight of the geographic prisoner. Freedom has been pierced, leaving the pupils casting the psychological blindness of the living.
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KOYAANISQATSI
“Nếu chúng ta đào bới những thứ quý giá từ đất đai, chúng ta sẽ mời gọi tai hoạ.”
“Gần Ngày Thanh Tẩy, sẽ có những tấm mạng nhện giăng qua giăng lại trên bầu trời.”
“Một ngày nào đó, một thùng tro có thể bị ném từ trên trời xuống—có thể đốt cháy đất đai và làm sôi đại dương.”
(Ba lời tiên tri của người Hopi cổ xưa)
“If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.”
“Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth across the sky.”
“One day, a container of ashes may be thrown from the sky—burning the land and boiling the oceans.”
(Three Hopi prophecies)
Artistic practice is an endogenous impulse—an accumulation that reflects the sequence of one’s personal life amid mobility and upheaval, chaos and violence in the surrounding environment. It holds repressed emotions, as well as reflections and contemplation on cultural and spiritual dimensions. Questions emerge such as: Is life real? Should we seek another reality? Or perhaps there are countless, ever-shifting realities within a single psychological state.
A PERIOD OF CHANGE Shifting Mindset
2015 – 2019
Exclusively painted landscapes and still lifes.
2020
Since 2020, the artist has expanded their visual language to include Expressionism and Surrealism, reflecting the psychological climate of the COVID-19 pandemic. The works articulate inner turmoil and repressed emotion in response to the social and environmental disruptions that have shaped everyday life.
Present
The third phase brings together Expressionism, Neo-Dada, and Abstraction, continuing through the present.
For the artist, practice is an internal, generative force—accumulating and reflecting a personal life shaped by movement, upheaval, chaos, and the violence of the surrounding environment. The works carry repressed emotions and sustained contemplation on cultural and spiritual conditions.
Recurring questions surface: Is life real? Should we seek another reality? Or perhaps: how do multiple, shifting realities emerge within a single psychological state?
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