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Other Projects by TIA-THUỶ NGUYỄN
UNITY
Hanoi, Vietnam
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
BUDGET
$10K - 50K
In October 2025, artist Tia-Thủy Nguyễn presents the public artwork “Unity” within the historic precinct of August 19 Memorial Garden. This site remains indelibly associated with the August Revolution of 1945. The installation transmutes collective historical memory into a contemporary spatial encounter. It departs from the conventional monumentality of static statuary and manifests as an abstract constellation of light. Metal, glass, ceramics, illumination, and sound converge to articulate a novel discourse between art and the urban fabric.
The conceptual genesis of the artwork derives from the archetype of Vietnam’s primordial forests. These have served as sanctuaries of concealment, sources of sustenance, and emblems of communal resilience across the nation’s historical continuum. Eighteen stainless-steel columnar forms, meticulously hand-welded and mirror-polished, stand configured in a circular array of twelve-meter diameter. These metallic elements eschew naturalistic replication and function as allegories of aggregated vitality. They resonate with the revolutionary motif of a hundred banners aloft while engendering an immersive domain. Here the observer enters, perceives, and integrates into the composition.
Intricately wrought artisanal interventions temper the austere steel planes. Mouth-blown glass blossoms originate from Huế; ceramic foliage comes from Bát Tràng; stainless-steel doves and pinwheels complete the ensemble. The interplay of rigidity and suppleness, industrial precision and ancestral craft, luminosity and opacity generates an ever-evolving visual cadence. Each medium refracts light in distinct modalities. The circumference thus becomes a kinetic prism that modulates with solar incidence, temporal progression, and pedestrian traversal. Within Tia-Thủy Nguyễn’s oeuvre, light transcends mere spectacle to become a vital medium. It channels through vitreous strata and disperses across metallic surfaces, engendering a perpetually mutable forest of radiance that is simultaneously corporeal and ethereal.
Fabrication encompassed thousands of hours and exemplifies a profound veneration of manual craftsmanship amidst industrial hegemony. The artist engaged directly in every phase, collaborating with master artisans: welders of metal, ceramicists, glassblowers, and floral composers. This symbiotic endeavor safeguards traditional patrimony while assimilating Vietnamese artisanal prowess into the international continuum of contemporary practice. Every articulation, from weld seams to vitreous petals, crystallizes erudition and human dexterity, simultaneously singular and collective. The work thus endures in material tenacity and spiritual permanence. It withstands Hanoi’s inclement milieu, a metropolis wherein temporal flux, solar intensity, precipitation, and gusts perpetually assay anthropogenic constructs.
The emplacement of “Unity” heralds a paradigm shift in Hanoi’s urban renewal doctrine. The city moves from superficial embellishment to culturally and socially resonant interventions. Public art now constitutes an integral component of the city’s metaphysical infrastructure, wherein aesthetic merit coalesces with communal remembrance. Municipal authorities have initiated partnerships with artists to embed artworks within civic realms, including Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Phùng Hưng, and August 19 Memorial Garden. Such initiatives bespeak an enlightened prospectus: art serves as a regenerative catalyst, cultivating identity and engendering urban cohesion.
Within this milieu, “Unity” transcends sculptural convention to embody a restorative artistic overture. It irradiates collective recollection through luminescence and human proximity. The installation proffers a nascent archetype for Vietnamese public art. Anchored in historiography yet conversant with global contemporaneity, it liberates remembrance from historical enclosure. Memory remains perpetually effulgent, vital, and reconstituted through the quotidian regard of the populace.
The conceptual genesis of the artwork derives from the archetype of Vietnam’s primordial forests. These have served as sanctuaries of concealment, sources of sustenance, and emblems of communal resilience across the nation’s historical continuum. Eighteen stainless-steel columnar forms, meticulously hand-welded and mirror-polished, stand configured in a circular array of twelve-meter diameter. These metallic elements eschew naturalistic replication and function as allegories of aggregated vitality. They resonate with the revolutionary motif of a hundred banners aloft while engendering an immersive domain. Here the observer enters, perceives, and integrates into the composition.
Intricately wrought artisanal interventions temper the austere steel planes. Mouth-blown glass blossoms originate from Huế; ceramic foliage comes from Bát Tràng; stainless-steel doves and pinwheels complete the ensemble. The interplay of rigidity and suppleness, industrial precision and ancestral craft, luminosity and opacity generates an ever-evolving visual cadence. Each medium refracts light in distinct modalities. The circumference thus becomes a kinetic prism that modulates with solar incidence, temporal progression, and pedestrian traversal. Within Tia-Thủy Nguyễn’s oeuvre, light transcends mere spectacle to become a vital medium. It channels through vitreous strata and disperses across metallic surfaces, engendering a perpetually mutable forest of radiance that is simultaneously corporeal and ethereal.
Fabrication encompassed thousands of hours and exemplifies a profound veneration of manual craftsmanship amidst industrial hegemony. The artist engaged directly in every phase, collaborating with master artisans: welders of metal, ceramicists, glassblowers, and floral composers. This symbiotic endeavor safeguards traditional patrimony while assimilating Vietnamese artisanal prowess into the international continuum of contemporary practice. Every articulation, from weld seams to vitreous petals, crystallizes erudition and human dexterity, simultaneously singular and collective. The work thus endures in material tenacity and spiritual permanence. It withstands Hanoi’s inclement milieu, a metropolis wherein temporal flux, solar intensity, precipitation, and gusts perpetually assay anthropogenic constructs.
The emplacement of “Unity” heralds a paradigm shift in Hanoi’s urban renewal doctrine. The city moves from superficial embellishment to culturally and socially resonant interventions. Public art now constitutes an integral component of the city’s metaphysical infrastructure, wherein aesthetic merit coalesces with communal remembrance. Municipal authorities have initiated partnerships with artists to embed artworks within civic realms, including Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Phùng Hưng, and August 19 Memorial Garden. Such initiatives bespeak an enlightened prospectus: art serves as a regenerative catalyst, cultivating identity and engendering urban cohesion.
Within this milieu, “Unity” transcends sculptural convention to embody a restorative artistic overture. It irradiates collective recollection through luminescence and human proximity. The installation proffers a nascent archetype for Vietnamese public art. Anchored in historiography yet conversant with global contemporaneity, it liberates remembrance from historical enclosure. Memory remains perpetually effulgent, vital, and reconstituted through the quotidian regard of the populace.
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