{"id":780,"date":"2024-09-22T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=780"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T21:06:07","slug":"felisa-nguyen","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/artist\/felisa-nguyen\/","title":{"rendered":"Felisa Nguy\u1ec5n"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"g-6bbxrhb\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 section-g-6bbxrhb gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Felisa Nguy\u1ec5n (she\/her) (b. 2001) is a Canadian artist of Vietnamese descent, living and working in New York City. Her practice is rooted in lived experience as a dispossessed body in the imperial core. Nguy\u1ec5n\u2019s work is concerned with the dark matter \u2014 the untranslatable, the ambiguous, the feelings of loss and absence \u2014 in between documented accounts of the past. In her work, quiet gestures reveal the pivoting functions of objects which simultaneously obscure and uncover illegible histories. She examines the malleability of collective and personal memory surrounding orientalism, colonialism, the family, and incarceration, through objects which range from explicitly to ambiguously culturally coded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/palettknife\/\">@palettknife<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felisa.ca\">www.felisa.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-row coblocks-row-10223047289 artwork-container\" data-columns=\"1\" data-layout=\"100\"><div class=\"artwork-container wp-block-coblocks-row__inner has-no-padding has-no-margin is-stacked-on-mobile has-medium-gutter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-column coblocks-column-10223051126\" style=\"width:100%\"><div class=\"wp-block-coblocks-column__inner has-no-padding has-no-margin\">\n<section id=\"g-qfll6ll\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 section-g-qfll6ll gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<div aria-label=\"Carousel 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soapstone<br>Dimensions variable<br>Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Xin L\u1ed7i Means Sorry<\/em> and <em>Another Mountain <\/em>are mixed-media installations by Felissa Nguyen that examine collective and personal memory around the histories of colonialism, family, and objects that have become culturally coded. Her works analyze the contemporary milieu of \u201cAsianness\u201d and \u201cVietnameseness\u201d that reflect on exploring the space in between documented histories and lived experiences. Nguyen\u2019s work explores the space between cultural objects and mass-produced commodities to evoke play in the presentation and configuration of these objects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/780\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaala.org\/art-exhibitions\/on-refuge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}