Invitation to the Opening | Thursday, 22 August 2024 | 6 pm

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) invites you to the opening of The Other Side of Now, a solo exhibition of film and sculpture by Vietnamese American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn on Thursday, 22 August at 6 pm.

The Other Side of Now explores the transnational entanglements created by colonisation and war. Particularly attending to the erased voices of Vietnamese, Senegalese, and Moroccan history, the exhibition proposes a space for communal healing and remembrance.

Nguyễn’s films move along spectrums of fact and fiction, past and present, memory and forgetting. He uses the power of storytelling to create speculative visions of difficult histories, opening a pathway of empathy and healing for both the subjects and viewers. In letters to a lost family member, imagined conversations between generations, or reincarnation as a means of healing from physical trauma, his work looks at hard pasts to realise healed futures.

Date & Time
Thursday, 22 August, 6 pm – 9 pm

Venue
Atrium Foyer, Zeitz MOCAA

The event is FREE and open to the public

Zeitz MOCAA members are invited to an Exclusive Members’ Preview at 4.30 pm ahead of the opening of The Other Side of Now. This exclusive members-only preview includes drinks and canapes in the Members’ Lounge and a walkabout of the exhibition with the artist, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn. Contact membership@zeitzmocaa.museum.

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn was born in 1976 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Shortly after, he and his family migrated to the United States where he lived and eventually graduated from the Fine Arts programme at the University of California, Irvine, in 1999 and received his Master of Fine Arts from The California Institute of the Arts in 2004.

Nguyễn currently lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The Other Side of Now forms part of an ongoing series of in-depth, research-based solo exhibitions by Zeitz MOCAA that bring into focus and contextualises the practices of important artists from Africa and the Diaspora, and those whose work focuses on seminal topics in African history. In the spirit of radical solidarity, our programme looks beyond the continent’s borders, attending to the new and old entanglements that implicate the world in Africa and Africa in the world.

Curators: Beata America, assisted by Khanyi Mawhayi.

Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s portrait by Jesse Barnes. Courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA.