Lêna Bùi: Blue Filaments

Trees, Joyce Kilmer (1886 – 1918)

Perhaps, memories are like filaments. A combination of contrasting characteristics, they can be fleeting yet persistent at the same time. Just as filaments form the basis of many structures, memories thread our relationships with time, places, people and things together, creating what can potentially be understood as existence. In Blue Filaments, Saigon-based artist Lêna Bùi’s first solo exhibition with Galerie BAO, a city and many of its past and future lives materialize through sensorial gestures of remembering that fuse together facts and imaginative speculations. Grounded on the artist’s ruminations on how memory works in a post-human world, in this exhibition each work operates like a particle of memories that sometimes cling together in order to create a concise narrative, at times they push each other away to make space for interpretation and reflection...

Excerpt form the exhibition essay by Linh Lê

curated by BAO