{"id":7185,"date":"2026-02-14T02:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T08:17:17","slug":"slipping-through-gaps-the-liminal-worlds-of-cian-duggan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/slipping-through-gaps-the-liminal-worlds-of-cian-duggan\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping through gaps: The liminal worlds of Cian Duggan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7190\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7190\" src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-2048x1463.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-1-1200x857.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition view of \u201cThin Space\u201d (2026), Galerie Quynh. Photo: Galerie Quynh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>The title of your show, &#8220;<\/b><b>Thin Space&#8221;<\/b><b>, raises the spectre of ambiguity. You use recurring forms that are ambiguous in their meaning. Could you share with us about how ambiguity operates in your work?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t know if ambiguity is something I set out to elicit intentionally. I think of the forms more as hybrids \u2013 things that contain a multitude. Maybe that\u2019s where the ambiguity comes from. From the beginning, I was interested in multiplicity, in ideas of time, how we experience reality, and the overlap between fiction and perception. Science fiction, folklore, mythology \u2013 all of that feeds into my work. I was trying to see if it was possible to make a form that both existed and didn\u2019t exist, everywhere and nowhere at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The form itself came quite naturally. I was drawing, and they started to feel organic but also artificial, like something from deep time, yet simultaneously from the distant future. They don\u2019t belong to a specific place, and I wanted to keep it that way. If a form appears in one landscape and then disappears, it can reconfigure somewhere else, in another material. It\u2019s the same thing, just existing simultaneously in different ways. So the ambiguity comes from that sense of being unfixed and untied to a particular time, environment, or life form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The flip side of ambiguity might be specificity, but the settings you place these forms into feel deliberately unspecific. You\u2019re pulling images from a wide range of\u00a0 times and locales.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the beginning, I was working from stock photography, almost like a databank. I started the series [of works on plexiglass] during COVID, which was already a very liminal moment globally. I was collecting these 3D-rendered rooms and generic interior spaces. Those early works were quite liminal. Over time, I started combining many images together, building new landscapes from multiple sources. The more recent works are all composites \u2013 collaged constructions made from stock imagery.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7187\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7187 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FACADE-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2560\/1707;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cian Duggan, &#8220;The Crawling Cure&#8221;. Photo: Galerie Quynh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>There is irony in the title <\/b><b><i>Thin Space<\/i><\/b><b> since the works feel expansive. It also suggests an in-between condition. Is that accurate?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes. It comes from the idea of a \u201cthin place\u201d in Celtic folklore. A thin place is a geographical or temporal point where the distance between our world and the other world is at its smallest. In Wicklow, the town in Ireland where I\u2019m from, there are places people have sought out since the 6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century because they\u2019re believed to be points where the human and non-human worlds intersect. A temporal version of this would be Samhain, which is where Halloween comes from. Outside of these moments or locations, the worlds are said to be three feet apart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>That technical specificity is incredible. It almost sounds like a scientific approach to the supernatural, which makes me think of your father\u2019s work as a ghost hunter.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He never called himself a ghost hunter. He used terms like space clearing or cleansing. It wasn\u2019t religious but related more to folklore. In some ways it\u2019s similar to how ancestral presence is understood in Vietnam, which is widely accepted, without being tied to religious doctrine. He believed that energy or spirits could get trapped in places, and his role was to help clear that. He was also a lifelong folklore collector, recording stories, cures, and local histories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A lot of the time, his work involved researching the history of a place. Once, when he was helping clear a building, he smelled tar. Later they found out that someone had been tarred there in the 19<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> century. For him, sensory experience and local history were always connected.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7192\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7192 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-3-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2560\/1707;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition view of \u201cThin Space\u201d (2026), Galerie Quynh. Photo: Galerie Quynh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>This raises the topic of place and specificity. How has working in Vietnam influenced your practice?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think it\u2019s made it easier to access a more accepted attitude towards the otherworldly. There\u2019s also a practical side. I really connect with how artists work here \u2013 the collaborative nature of the scene, and the impromptu way the spaces operate. Nothing feels fixed. Buildings come and go. Some institutions are designed to exist only temporarily. What lasts are the ideas and the work that happened there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That sense of flux has definitely shaped how I think about my practice. The idea remains, but it keeps reconfiguring through new spaces, people, and materials. That constant change is something I find exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>You\u2019ve shifted towards working with thick acrylic plates, which feel more permanent than the wall-painting works.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don\u2019t really see them as permanent. Acrylic allows me to \u201clayer time,\u201d quite literally. I take documentation of older, ephemeral works that no longer exist, edit them into new landscapes, and then repaint over them. It\u2019s a way of condensing different timescales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The material itself is also very reactive. Acrylic changes with light \u2013 it absorbs, reflects, and shifts depending on its environment. So even if the work is more conserved, it\u2019s never static. Light, shadow, and surroundings all become part of it. Time and light are active materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7191\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7191 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-2-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2560\/1920;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition view of \u201cThin Space\u201d (2026), Galerie Quynh. Photo: Galerie Quynh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>So the work keeps changing depending on where it\u2019s installed. But at the same time, many of the forms in this exhibition are recycled from earlier works.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Everything contains previous works. Some pieces include years of accumulated material. Recently, I\u2019ve also been making shadows of works that don\u2019t exist yet \u2013 creating the shadow first, then later making the form. It reverses the usual process, showing how old work always informs the present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>One notable exception in your practice is the installation <\/b><b><i>Other Mother<\/i><\/b><b>, which I believe to be the only artwork you\u2019ve ever made that doesn\u2019t include your signature forms per se.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That was my only sculptural installation. I was painting in a landscape surrounded by rubble \u2013 broken concrete from demolished buildings. Instead of painting onto the landscape, I took material from it and transformed it. I repainted the concrete with high-gloss enamel so light would remain active. The work existed both inside and outside. Recently, I\u2019ve been thinking about photographing those pieces and reintroducing them into newer works.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7188\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7188 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/otherMother-INSIDE-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2560\/1707;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cian Duggan, &#8220;otherMother&#8221; (2019), enamel on concrete. Photo: MoTplus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>There\u2019s a strong sense of recursion in everything you do.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nothing is ever finished. Everything can become something else. Recently, I discovered that the fabricators I use can chemically strip the prints off the acrylic and the blocks can be reused. What looks permanent usually isn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>You also made a wall work in the stairwell at Galerie Quynh, and a facade piece for their anniversary show last year, which is still there at the moment \u2013 \u201cpermanent\u201d works, until the building gets sold.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then they will reappear somewhere else, in another form.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7193\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7193 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/THINSPACE-4-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2560\/1920;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition view of \u201cThin Space\u201d (2026), Galerie Quynh. Photo: Galerie Quynh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thin Space<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is on display through 28 February, 2026 at <span style=\"color: #00aae7\"><a style=\"color: #00aae7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.galeriequynh.com\/\">Galerie Quynh<\/a><\/span>, 118 Nguyen Van Thu, Tan Dinh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Words: David Willis<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation with Cian Duggan on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Galerie Quynh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[101,99,100],"class_list":["post-7185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-salon","tag-cian-duggan","tag-exhibition","tag-galerie-quynh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - 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