Born 1985, Hanoi, Vietnam
Lives and works in Hanoi

Nguyên Phuong Linh was raised in a highly artistic environment. Her father, Nguyên Manh Duc, co-founded Vietnam’s first artist-run space, Nhà Sàn Studio, in the family home in Hanoi in 1998, and she regularly accompanied him to villages across Northern Vietnam, where he oversaw the restoration of historical temples and houses.

The Encounter is a multimedia installation inspired by these spaces, combining sculpture and video to reflect on memory, heritage and the changing landscape of Vietnam. Arranged across two rooms, mimicking the division of traditional Vietnamese houses according to gender, it introduces a host of evocative motifs, such as resonant sites and artefacts, movements of rising and falling, and the medium cassiterite (a tin ore), as well as visual references to the mythical princess Liễu Hạnh, who was decapitated by her father for falling in love with an enemy and a figure of veneration among women in Nam Dinh.