VIET NAM

At its first participation, Vietnam presents a sober and meditative artistic experience, in which silence and slowness become tools of understanding. Ten artists present works made using traditional Vietnamese lacquer, layered with mineral pigments, eggshell, gold, and silver. The colors – black, cinnabar red, and deep browns – emerge from inside the surface with striking visual intensity. The Pavilion also presents the body of work Silkworm by Le Huu Hieu: installations and monumental sculptures made from materials that evoke the history and traditions of his country, in the epic of a nation whose heroes are the anonymous masses.