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Duong Thuy Nguyen’s multidisciplinary practice navigates the interstices of place, memory, and belonging, engaging deeply with the socio-historical textures of local communities. Rooted in an exploration of domestic spaces and the human imprint on landscape, Nguyen’s work operates across a spectrum of materials—ranging from resilient substances such as metal and wood to more fugitive mediums like paper and dust. Her formal language draws upon abstraction and biomorphic structures, evoking the material and immaterial traces of migration, labour, and lineage

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Nguyen’s installations function as porous habitats—sites of encounter that foreground the psychic and environmental aftermaths of colonialism and industrial modernity. In these spaces, materiality becomes a vehicle for unraveling inherited trauma, environmental fragility, and the cyclical rhythms of life and decay. Rather than offering resolution, her work opens a reflective terrain where viewers are invited to confront the entanglements of personal and collective histories.

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Through a deliberately slow methodology that resists extractive models of production, Nguyen’s practice cultivates a mode of critical intimacy. She interrogates dominant structures of knowledge, privileging alternative epistemologies grounded in care, intergenerational exchange, and speculative reimaginings of the past. In doing so, her work gestures toward a decolonial future—one attentive to rupture, resilience, and the quiet, ongoing labour of transformation.