Date | 5 - 20 June | Tea-Room / Boulagerie Jotterand |
Venue | Around the city - Exhibition Sobremesa |
Price | Free |
Bellies To Fill
Thi My Lien Nguyen (CH)
Bellies to Fill tells the story of the artist’s mother and grandmother, while also being contextualized through the artist’s own narration. The video features assembled footage showing the mother and grandmother cooking and preparing meals, as well as recordings of the artist herself cooking, followed by an evening shared with friends—eating, drinking, and talking. The spoken text narrated by the artist, weaves together the story of three generations into an emotional portrait. It gives visibility to the often invisible and meticulous preparations of a meal and reflects the identities of three women navigating between Vietnamese heritage and Western society.
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Thi My Lien Nguyen (born in 1995) is a Swiss-Vietnamese photographer and artist based in Switzerland. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in Camera Arts from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in 2017. In her artistic practice, she explores notions of belonging, participation, and home, with a particular interest in diasporic and post-migratory realities and narratives. Through participatory methods, performative and culinary activations, she seeks to create more inclusive spaces that foster understanding and representation between communities. She works with the notions of tradition, rituals, folklore, photography, and food. Her work has been presented in several exhibitions, including the 22nd Biennale Sesc_Videobrasil in São Paulo (2023), the Museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich (2023), and Photo Hanoi at the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA) (2021).
Nguyen is part of the curatorial team of Les Complices, a community-based, self-managed space in Zurich committed to supporting the ideas and work of queer, trans, intersex, non-binary people, women*, and BIPoC.