Hung Duong

Hung Duong is an independent writer and translator whose criticism on Southeast Asian contemporary art spans a diverse spectrum of forms and themes. Their practice weaves textual intricacy with visual subtlety to deliver responses and raise questions about art and society. Their writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Asia Pacific, Art & Market, and Mekong Review. Duong is currently building their website sea-through.net, which will serve as a digital platform featuring artists and art events across Southeast Asia, along with their personal projects.

Contributions

Southeast Asia | A Global Museum

Through Resin and Screen: Writing Art History Through Lacquer

Originally a concept that signifies manuscripts in which new layers of writing have been added atop of an effaced original writing, of which traces remain, the palimpsest has evolved into a methodology through which one critically examines a historical phenomenon as embedded in the cycle of inscription, erasure, and re-inscription. I employ the palimpsest as a methodology to reassess the material ethos of Vietnamese lacquer and its place in prominent canons in Vietnam’s art history, thus opening opportunities for its rewriting.