{"id":9949,"date":"2023-03-22T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2023-06-07T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:05:07","slug":"capture-public-art-kvetnguyen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/2023\/03\/capture-public-art-kvetnguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Capture Public Art 2023: Kvet Nguyen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9962\" src=\"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Capture-Public-Art-Poster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/>Capture Public Art: Kvet Nguyen<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">April 1 \u2013 August 31, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Curated by former Executive Director\/Curator Henry Heng Lu\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">King Edward Station<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Courtesy of the artist:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><strong>Kvet Nguyen<\/strong>\u2019s work demonstrates an embodied sense of searching within the self. For her photo series You are allowed to mix apples and pears here, assembles a range of objects \u2013 primarily organic \u2013 of various sculptural forms and photographs them against backdrops of domestic settings. The objects, many of which are often found in diasporic cooking, are posed with others with apparently different cultural roots; the constructed compositions display dexterity, elegance, and discomfort. These compositions symbolize the act of \u201cblending in\u201d performed by Nguyen\u2019s family following their immigration to Slovakia from Vietnam several decades ago, and simultaneously evoke a sense of uncertainty through the strange-yet-familiar quality of the collages. The subtle approach to familiarity is aided by elegant lighting, surroundings, and colour choices, seemingly creating a metaphor for becoming, unbecoming, and rebecoming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Ultimately, You are allowed to mix apples and pears here is a family portrait of Nguyen\u2019s parents and herself that speaks to the prolonged process of navigating cultures and settling in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Presented in partnership with Capture Photography Festival and the Canada Line Public Art Program \u2013 InTransit BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kvet Nguyen\u2019s work demonstrates an embodied sense of searching within the self. For her photo series You are allowed to mix apples and pears here, assembles a range of objects \u2013 primarily organic \u2013 of various sculptural forms and photographs them against backdrops of domestic settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[25,63,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10014,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions\/10014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centrea.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}