Water Street by Night

West Space
2 March - 27 April 2024

Melissa Nguyen presents a new, print-based painting in the West Space Window. Water Street by Night explores Vietnam’s relationship with replication and mechanical reproduction through methods of appropriation.

With source imagery from the Vietnamese Cabaret Show, Paris by Night, the work uses bootleg aesthetics as a filter to consider notions of Orientalism and Western perceptions, diasporic cultural experiences, and personal nostalgia.

Read the accompanying exhibition text "Today I am alive, and without nostalgia the night flows" by Annabel Brown here.