Lêna Bùi, Blue Filaments exhibition view at Galerie Bao 2024, Paris, France. Photo credit: Emma Introvigne
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree."
- Trees, Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918)
Perhaps, memories are like filaments. A combination of contrasting characteristics, they can be fleeting yet persistent at the same time. Just as filaments form the basis of many structures, memories thread our relationships with time, places, people and things together, creating what can potentially be understood as existence. In Blue Filaments, Saigon-based artist Lêna Bùi's first solo exhibition with Galerie BAO, a city and many of its past and future lives materialize through sensorial gestures of remembering that fuse together facts and imaginative speculations. Grounded on the artist's ruminations on how memory works in a post-human world, in this exhibition each work operates like a particle of memories that sometimes cling together in order to create a concise narrative, at times they push each other away to make space for interpretation and reflection...
Excerpt form the exhibition essay by Linh Lê
The exhibition is curated and organized by BAO
Co-produced by Galerie BAQ
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