{"id":7612,"date":"2026-09-18T18:35:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/?p=7612"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:35:03","slug":"citiscapes-in-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/citiscapes-in-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Citiscapes in relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #282828\"><em>\u0110\u1ecdc phi\u00ean b\u1ea3n ti\u1ebfng Vi\u1ec7t <span style=\"color: #00aae7\"><a style=\"color: #00aae7\" href=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/phu-dieu-dien-mao-nhung-thanh-thi\/\">t\u1ea1i \u0111\u00e2y<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">After graduating from the Painting department of Hanoi University of Fine Arts in the early 2000s, I spent a long period focussing on silk painting, from mastering traditional techniques to expanding its experimental possibilities in both material and subject matter. From very early on, I wanted to challenge entrenched assumptions and explore new possibilities within the medium. Through series such as \u201cSuper Conductor\u201d and \u201cNew Higher Level\u201d, I sought to reflect urban transformation through symbolic images: electricity poles, community loudspeakers, banners, tube houses wrapped in construction tarpaulins, and streams of weary motorbike riders moving below. These silk paintings were not mounted and framed behind glass in the conventional way. Instead, they appeared rough, raw and unfinished, bordered by brightly coloured plastic push pins. Like the urban tube house itself, they never ceased their ongoing process of construction and upward expansion.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7615\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7615\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7615\" src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--scaled.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--scaled.webp 2560w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--300x254.webp 300w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--1024x868.webp 1024w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--768x651.webp 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--1536x1302.webp 1536w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--2048x1736.webp 2048w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SUPER-CONDUCTOR-XV--1200x1017.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #282828\"><em>Nguyen The Son, \u201cSuper Conductor XV\u201d (2005\u20132010). Photo: provided by the artist.<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">Alongside these experiments in painting, I also turned to photography and installation as means of documenting the creative process and gathering research material for my personal projects. Continuing my exploration of the city through projects centred on water and trees in urban space, my photographic practice underwent a significant shift during my Master\u2019s studies in photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. The geographical distance \u2013 and the constant movement between Beijing and Hanoi \u2013 granted me sufficient critical distance to see more clearly the face of a city that had seemed overly familiar since childhood. This idea took shape in my graduation project \u201cHouse facing the street \u2013 Artificial landscapes of Vietnamese cities during the transition period\u201d, which hybridised photography, architecture and sculpture to create the language of \u201cphoto-relief\u201d. For me, this method became a way of excavating the layered stratigraphy of the urban tube house across different historical periods, while simultaneously examining shifts in social value systems tied to changes in institutions and economic models. By moving beyond the conventional boundaries of both silk painting and photography, I attempted to reconstruct a personal urban reality through interdisciplinary thinking, where sociological research intersects with visual art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">This project also became a turning point for my subsequent research into urban themes and memory, such as \u201cSearching for the Common House\u201d \u2013 a study of the changing forms and functions of communal shrines dedicated to craft ancestors in Hanoi\u2019s Old Quarter \u2013 and \u201cNha Tay Transforms\u201d, a collaboration with artist and researcher Tran Hau Yen The that sought to peel back and decode the fa\u00e7ades of the few remaining French colonial villas that have survived two decades of aggressive urbanisation. Here, the language of \u201cphoto-relief\u201d re-emerged through a combination of measured architectural drawing and fine-art publication formats, creating an open dialogue within the beautiful Western architectural setting of Manzi.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7616\" style=\"width: 1376px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7616 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-scaled.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1376\" height=\"2560\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-scaled.webp 1376w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-161x300.webp 161w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-550x1024.webp 550w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-768x1429.webp 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-825x1536.webp 825w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-1101x2048.webp 1101w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/WQ6R9958-1200x2233.webp 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1376px) 100vw, 1376px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1376px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1376\/2560;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #282828\"><em>Nguyen The Son, \u201cNha Tay Transforms\u201d project (2012\u20132016). Photo: provided by the artist.<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">Extending this line of inquiry, \u201cDevant derri\u00e8re (Change Face)\u201d became the next chapter in my collaboration with Tran Hau Yen The. In this project, photography was employed to uncover the stories and historical layers embedded within the system of improvised \u201ctiger-cage\u201d balcony extensions \u2013 where the backs of socialist-era apartment blocks suddenly transformed into street fa\u00e7ade, accompanied by the proliferating layers of signage that emerged in the post-Renovation era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">My ongoing preoccupation with the boundary between personal and collective space intensified in \u201c8m\u00b2\u201d, a large-scale photo and sound installation exhibited at the museum of Hanoi University of Fine Arts and the Goethe-Institut Hanoi. The work emerged from fieldwork conducted in workers\u2019 rented rooms within industrial zones on the outskirts of Saigon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">At times, my urban investigations in photography have looped back into silk painting, as in \u201cRed Days\u201d and \u201cColour of the Sound\u201d. Here, a surreal dimension emerges through the intersection of silk and music: the community loudspeakers depicted in the paintings broadcast the sounds of \u201cyellow music\u201d (nhac vang) recorded on vinyl in Saigon before 1975, inviting viewers into a contemplative space of urban history and collective memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7614\" style=\"width: 2512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7614 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-scaled.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"2512\" height=\"2560\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-scaled.webp 2512w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-294x300.webp 294w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-1005x1024.webp 1005w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-768x783.webp 768w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-1507x1536.webp 1507w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-2009x2048.webp 2009w, https:\/\/artnation.vn\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC08301-1200x1223.webp 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 2512px) 100vw, 2512px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 2512px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 2512\/2560;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"color: #282828\"><em>Nguyen The Son, \u201cMountain to mountain, river to river\u201d (2019). Photo: provided by the artist.<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">Continuing this trajectory of experimentation, traditional Vietnamese lacquer also became fertile ground when combined with documentary photography. \u201cMountain to Mountain, River to River,\u201d exhibited at the Lumenvisum Art Centre (Hong Kong), and \u201cStory of 16 Coffee Tables\u201d, exhibited at Bildmuseet (Sweden), sought to extend conceptual photography through the combination of traditional lacquer, quoc ngu calligraphy and contemporary documentary photography. Here, photographic data functions as a catalyst, interacting with materials that might initially appear incompatible \u2013 such as quoc ngu calligraphy and lacquer \u2013 and opening up reflective questions about history in relation to the present and the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #282828\">For many years, my personal artistic projects and community projects have continued to coexist and intersect within my practice as a reciprocal relationship. In that space, the boundary between fine art and photography has become increasingly difficult to define. Materials meet and overlap naturally, like necessary voices shaping the very conception of the work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"color: #282828\"><strong>Words: Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ebf S\u01a1n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #282828\"><strong>Translation: Art Nation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Nguyen The Son questioned the changing face of lived space in contemporary society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[175,104,176],"class_list":["post-7612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-jacent","tag-nguyen-the-son","tag-photography","tag-urban-memory"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Citiscapes in relief - Art Nation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Graduating with a Master of Arts in Photography from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, visual artist Nguyen The Son (b. 1978) has devoted many years to interdisciplinary practice through projects investigating social phenomena and urban memory. 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