Open Kitchen 002: Fusion
The BLANC
15 E 40th Street, Floor 2, New York, NY
00 Fusion installation view 15 E 40th Street, New York, NY
With Open Kitchen’s second exhibition “Fusion,” artists Anh Nguyen, Felisa Nguyen, and Huyen Tran jointly create an installation with existing works or their parts and variations that support each other, structurally and conceptually. The structures will be free-standing systems that only use each other’s works as foundations, “pillars,” “frames,” “walls,” and “floors,” without any exterior contacts except for resting on the gallery floor. This act calls for Asian contemporary art’s condition in the West as it sustains viability only via communal support and lacks much systematic and institutional interaction with the “surroundings.”
— Phil Zheng Cai, Curator, Open Kitchen
01 Plastic stools, found fabric, wood, orchid clip, carved stone, digital inkjet print
01 (Detail)
02 Steel, cardboard, bungee cord, digital inkjet print
03 Aluminum cans, black tea, milk, digital inkjet print