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SUMMARY:Phuong Nguyen: I Was Born Where You Are
DESCRIPTION:‍‘I Was Born Where You Are’ is a collection of work that 
 explores the ‘peri-human’ through orientalism/ornamentalism and its rel
 ationship to colonial history through oil painting\, sculpture\, and weavin
 g.\n\nPaintings of select objects are coded under the Western gaze to evoke
  a peri-human Southeast Asian woman. Porcelain\, silk\, delicate lotuses an
 d other ornamental objects become alchemic attempts to evoke her presence a
 nd bring non-living objects to life.\n\nIn symbiosis with these still lives
 \, the idea of the swamp is explored as a site where death and life\, like 
 the peri-human subjects\, exist simultaneously. The swamp is neither dead n
 or alive\, but is home to a spectrum of both extremes\, becoming a place wh
 ere the lines dividing the past and future are blurred and undone. For the 
 artist\, it becomes a mirror to the self as a racialized other: a human sub
 ject turned into an object\; under the Western gaze\, is neither fully aliv
 e nor fully not-living.\n\nhttps://www.visitcalgary.com/events/phuong-nguye
 n-i-was-born-where-you-are\n\nhttps://www.thebows.org/projects/i-was-born-w
 here-you-are
LOCATION:The Bows\, 2001b 10 Ave Sw\, Calgary\, Alberta\, T3C 0K4
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