Dahn Vo

Seeking to address the paradoxes of space and time, Dahn Vo’s conceptual work deals with questions of identity, memory and belonging. “My parents were always quite skeptical about my artistic venture [...]. We didn’t talk much, because their Danish is not as good as their Vietnamese and I’m the opposite. [...] I think my whole project is about establishing this relationship, how to understand each other without talking, through the structures, the work, everything else.” Between his personal experience and the collective history that shapes our individuality, Dahn Vo produces work made of intertwined, superimposed or dislocated elements, sometimes mixing the organic with the cultural, and persuades us that objects accumulate within themselves a highly symbolic charge. The only connection between them - for example, a statue of Liberty in pieces, scattered chandeliers, branches, photographs, etc. - is the one he creates in relation to the things he has lived through and the things that have lived through him.