Vy Trịnh explores how objects and their networks fluctuate between the domestic and public and extend beyond themselves, reflecting and reimagining the larger socio-economic textures and conditions of contemporary Vietnam.
Materials and objects are sourced and amalgamated from different economies and ecologies—tracing the polyrhythmic, cyclical, and sedimented lives of human and non-human things at both the local, urban, and planetary scales, bridging the gap between intimacy and circulation.
Through manual making methodology, the interior and exterior environments of her works bleed together. Her practice is always “becoming”, following the traffic of objects, different forms of gendered labour and agency, and the sites where these categories are constantly being negotiated and improvised.
