Lien Truong – When the Sun Sheared a Vessel

$5,000

SKU: 28473

Artwork Description

Lien Truong – When the Sun Sheared a Vessel

Dimensions: 30 x 22″ paper
Year: 2019
Medium: acrylic, silk, antique Japanese fabric on paper

My current work transforms figures from the genre of Orientalist paintings. Recast as silhouettes painted in the palest yellow hue, they repudiate their sexualized and submissive origins. They are given agency, weaponized, engage in acts of self-love, and examine how gestures can both refer to and reject oppressive epistemologies. Bodies emerge out of silk anamorphic shapes, cradled by uncanny silhouettes of Orientalist ancestors. The paintings are a type of Asian Futurism, born from the violent histories descended from Orientalist ideologies; and the trauma, strength and love transcending transnational and generational boundaries, to create narratives of resistance and autonomy.
-Lien Truong