Quynh Dong | Yeo Workshop

Quynh Dong creates hyper-real video works to provide an innate platform upon which she deliberately challenges cultural stereotypes.

Her practice extends to also include performance and sculpture. She studied Fine Arts at Bern University of the Arts, and completed her MA in Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited internationally, notably including the Kunsthalle Bern, Galerie Perotin in Paris, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, and Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partner in Bern. She has further performed her works at Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique Paris; Museé cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne in Switzerland ; LISTE 17, the Young Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland; the Emily Harvey Foundation in New York, USA; and YAP`15, The Twinkle World, Exco 1F, Deagu, in South Korea.

Quynh Dong’s statement:

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For this performance I would like to use my body (hair) as a brush and draw with black ink on white square paper. Here i m making reference to the work Black Square of Malevich ("zero point of painting"). In my adaptation of meaning it is the zero point of the female asian body.

Here I like to practice performance as a physical manifestation to move away from the stage to construct the identity of the body.I'm interested in changing observation by using the body with all significance to send information. I was alway thinking of art in connection with paintings and I like the process of it. During my approach to performance art I was including the media video that I was working with. To tell stories with moving images. With performance I can combine, think about all the media, painting, sound, sculpture and moving image at the same time. I was always critical about using others' bodies to perform for me, so I used my body to perform. My artworks were read by the critics as migration art, asian art, autobiographical. This performance is just to clarify that the body of a performance can read as a tool for the process of an artwork. About the title. I like to name my works like love songs. And I like the Vietnamese language and its transformation and adaptations in time.