Exhibition

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba

23 Feb 2008 – 31 May 2008

Regular hours

Monday
11:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00
Friday
10:00 – 17:00

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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is one of the most exciting Asian artists to have emerged in recent years. This retrospective is his first major UK exhibition.

The exhibition draws together an outstanding selection of the artist's work and includes a large-scale installation The Globe Project: The Garden of Globes (2007). Further new works will also feature, including a film The Ground, The Root, and the Air: The Passing of the Bodhi Tree (2007) and a new specially commissioned print for Manchester.

Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba is probably best known for his mesmerising underwater films depicting divers as they perform a traditional Chinese dragon dance in the sea; as they paint portraits underwater, and local fishermen pulling rickshaws along the seabed.

In these films, as in much of his work, references are frequently made to the artist's Asian heritage, exploring themes of tradition, cultural identity and the fate of displaced communities. The films are dream-like works which inspire both simple, sensory responses and yet are also permeated by an explicit and dark symbolism.

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