Art work by Tiffany Chung. Photo courtesy of www.arcus-project.com
Vietnamese artist Tiffany Chung has opened her third solo exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art in New York City. Chung is one of the most prominent and internationally active artists based in Viet Nam. She is participating in an impressive array of exhibitions this year, including: “Six Lines of Flight” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Sept. 15 – Dec. 31); “The Map as Art” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo. (Sept. 14 – April 21, 2013); “Encounter: Royal Academy in Asia,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (Sept. 14 – Oct. 21); “There Can Be No Better World,” Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Manila, Philippines (closed in August); “Facing West/Looking East,” Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, Calif. (through Jan. 13, 2013); “Art Stays,” 10th Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Slovenia (through Dec. 31; and the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia (Dec. 8, 2012 – April 14, 2013).
Chung’s exhibition at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, “Tomorrow Isn’t Here,” is part of a new series of multimedia works called The Galápagos Project, which derives from her research on various processes of transformation in towns and cities in several post-industrial countries. The series explores deindustrialization, demographic changes, global economic crises, natural disasters, extreme climate impact and human destruction. The exhibition references the Great Plains and Dust Bowl of the 1930s to epitomize the decline of an extensive flatland region due to natural disaster and human destruction. With the misuse of land, inappropriate agricultural practices, and extreme climate impact, the severe dust storms of the 1930s destroyed 25 million hectares of land and caused hundreds of thousands of people in the Great Plains to migrate West during the Great Depression. “Tomorrow Isn’t Here” comprises a series of embroidered charts, works on paper, a sculptural installation, and the American premiere of her two most recent video works.
The exhibition runs through Oct. 20.
