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| Outside the gallery. It's one of the very few artist run galleries (there are a very few any contemporary art galleries). |
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| Nguyen Minh Phuoc, the gallerist, was very nice and it was interesting to hear him talk about the conditions for artists in Vietnam. The government is censoring art and likes to obstruct projects they don't understand or think are too "modern". Phuoc doesn't have permission for the exhibitions at the gallery. The police came by a couple of times in the beginning. They interrogated him and asked him "if he is a crook". Phuok tried to explain about contemporary art but he couldn't make them understand, so he suggested to them that they would make an effort to study cultural studies. |
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| All the invites are made of the artists' passports |
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| And so was mine... |
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| Cleaning the space before the opening... |
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| Phuok having lunch while waiting for the video projector, which arrived two hours before the opening. I did not have much to say about the display of my work, but I thought it's the best just to follow the flow... |
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| Two guys from the Vietnamese televison made an interview with me for some cultural program. I wish I had seen it! |
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| The opening was great, loads of people came. I got about fifty red roses from Maritta and Phuoc claimed that "everybody important" in Hanoi was there. |
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I showed a video piece called "living paintings" which was commissioned by the Turku Art Museum two years ago. I didn't have much saying about the display. But it was fine, sometimes it's best to go with the flow and forget about thinking in straight lines. But if I go back I would do it differently - somehow work together with the people there. There's so much interesting stuff... But how could I have known before I went there.... |
Gun Holmström 2006 |