Diane Severin Nguyen: IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS

October 28 - February 26,2023

From Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: "Diane Severin Nguyen: IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS is the first solo museum exhibition of artist Diane Severin Nguyen. The exhibition features a recent video installation, photographs, and the artist’s first public art commission through billboards located throughout Houston. The exhibition is built around the Warsaw-set titular video, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, and loosely follows the character of an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to be absorbed into a South Korean pop-inspired dance group. K-pop is used by the artist as a vernacular material to trace a relationship between Eastern Europe and Asia with roots in Cold War allegiances. Nguyen’s work reckons with the process of finding shared symbols and naming oneself from within another’s regime, while also positioning youth culture as a critical and crucial site of revolutionary power."

Reception: October 28, 2022 | 12-5 pm

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston - CAMH 5216 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, TX 77006
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