Vietnam’s visual arts and COVID-19
about 45 months ago (07/30/2020)
Vietnam's visual arts and COVID-19 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Nguyen Duc Phuong July 30, 2020 By Quyen Hoang (2,100 words, 8-minute read) On a rainy evening towards the end of May 2020, it seemed like Saigon’s most dapper guys and modish gals all flocked to Galerie Quynh. What was buzzing inside the gallery’s three-storey space was a new exhibition titled “Lunar Breccia”, featuring new works by Hoang Duong Cam, Do Thanh Lang, Sandrine Llouquet, Vo Tran Chau, Hoang Nam Viet, Keen Souhlal and Nghia Dang. As the city’s first contemporary show after April’s two-week isolation period due to COVID-19 was officially lifted by the government, the opening reception marked not only a social event for patrons of the arts and friends of friends to gather and reconnect in real life , but was also a definitive sign of how life in Vietnam had in many aspects returned to normalcy, or shall we say, assumed the new normal .