Taiwanese artist Nana Chen’s first solo exhibition entitled "Discarded" is open at Heritage Space, featuring a series of large size photos in an ongoing project by the artist in Ho Chi Minh City.
Hanoi (VNA) - Taiwanese artist NanaChen’s first solo exhibition entitled "Discarded" is open at HeritageSpace, featuring a series of large size photos in an ongoing project by theartist in Ho Chi Minh City.
Twelve photos measuring 180cm by 120cm weretaken by Nana from 2011 to present in District 2 in HCM City, where the artistcurrently lives.
As a person with a multi-disciplinary interestof architecture, interiors and music, Chen saw the poetic factor of theabandoned areas of the city. The scene lies in the still loneliness, theinvisible quiet motion of the invisible objects such as an old grimy teddy bearor a manequin’s arms and head rolling in the garden.
The images that seem meaningless reveal part ofa dark corner, some blurred region of the urban vignette, and the vast emptyspace of the human mind.
Chen is a Taipei-born photographer whose workshas been published in The Observer, AFP, MarieClaire, Esquire, D-la Repubblica, SCMP and other publications.
Her recent projects include an ongoing portraitseries of Thai transgender women in mainstream occupations, Nocturne:Bangkok’s Chinatown at rest; Chungking Mansions: the last ghetto inHong Kong and a portrait series on Vietnam’s billionaire women. Herphotographic subjects include themes on identity, displacement and subcultures.
She currently divides her time between HCM City,Bangkok and Europe.
The exhibition will run until March 25 atDolphin Plaza, 6 Nguyen Hoang Street, My Dinh 2 ward, NamTuLiem district.-VNA
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Detritus: A photo taken by Nana Chen. 
