Metamorphose : Becoming Animal…Becoming Plants…
Đỗ Hoàng Tường, Pink Bird, 2025, oil on canvas, 100x115cm. Photo : Claire Dorn
The presentation brings together artists whose works inhabit a threshold where human, animal, vegetal, and spiritual forms continuously shift into one another. Across painting, drawing, ceramic, and installation, transformation appears not as an extraordinary event, but as a fundamental condition of life.
In these works, the body is never fixed. It opens itself to other presences, carrying traces of birds, plants, myths, and memories. Đỗ Hoàng Tường's Pink Bird evokes a state of becoming in which human and animal exist within the same fragile form.
The exhibition unfolds through a series of passages. In Hà My Nguyễn's ceramic gives way to living vegetation, dissolving the boundary between body and earth. Nguyễn Duy Mạnh's wounded ceramic vase, adorned with phoenixes and flowering vines, transforms ornament into flesh and rupture into renewal.
Dream, mythology, and metamorphosis converge in the works of Huỳnh Công Nhớ and Richie Nath. Their figures inhabit spaces where identities remain fluid, suspended between visible and invisible worlds, between bodily existence and symbolic transformation.
Finally, Hà Mạnh Thắng's The Last Splendid Afternoon of Last Autumn #1 approaches transformation through atmosphere and material accumulation. Layers of lacquer, pigment, charcoal, and gold leaf evoke processes of sedimentation and decay. The surface appears alive, as if caught between flowering and combustion, offering an abstract meditation on cycles of disappearance and regeneration.
Drawing from Southeast Asian cosmologies and contemporary ecological thought, Metamorphose proposes a vision of interdependence in which species, materials, and histories remain entangled. Here, becoming animal or becoming plant is not a departure from humanity, but a reminder that life unfolds through constant exchange. The exhibition invites viewers to consider identity as a living process: unstable, relational, and always in transformation.