Night Crawlers
a part of Hanoi Adhoc’s architecture pavilion, ARCHITECTURE, FACTORIES AND (RE)TRACING THE MODERN DREAMGia Lâm Train Factory, Hanoi, Vietnam - as part of UNESCO’s Hanoi Festival of Creative Design 2023.Night Crawlers, 2023
Sculpture (a series of 5)
I picked objects and structures that facilitated multiple flows of ventilation, production, and circulation at the factory. All objects were found on site. Labor makes and unmakes. Time folds and unfolds. Dreams flicker and emerge again.
Night Crawler (1), 2023
Rusted ring and a crushed section from a pipe, and nickel-plated steel ball chain.
55 x 70 x 65 cm
Night Crawler (2), 2023
Ventilation pipe cut in half, rebar, brass, flux, and nickel-plated steel ball chain.
64 x 65 x 115 cm
Night Crawler (3), 2023
Section of the train, steel, and nickel-plated steel ball chain.
128 x 48 x 100 cm
Night Crawler (4), 2023
Adhoc tool table fabricated by the factory workers, rebar, steel, brass, flux, and nickel-plated steel ball chain.
110 x 140 x 145 cm
Night Crawler (5), 2023
Gas cylinder hand truck, steel, brass, flux, and nickel-plated steel ball chain.
60 x 98 x 116 cm
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More about the exhibition: https://www.hanoiadhoc.com/hah-1-0-exhibition
Photography by Trieu Chien.
