Open Kitchen 002 — Felisa Nguyen

Open Kitchen 002: Fusion

Installation by Anh Nguyen, Felisa Nguyen, Huyen Tran
curated by Phil Zheng Cai

May 10– 30, 2025
The Blanc, 15 E 40 Street, Floor 2, New York, NY

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With Open Kitchen’s second exhibition “Fusion,” artists Anh Nguyen, Felisa Nguyen, and Huyen Tran jointly create an installation with existing works or their parts and variations that support each other, structurally and conceptually. The structures will be free-standing systems that only use each other’s works as foundations, “pillars,” “frames,” “walls,” and “floors,” without any exterior contacts except for resting on the gallery floor. This act calls for Asian contemporary art’s condition in the West as it sustains viability only via communal support and lacks much systematic and institutional interaction with the “surroundings.”

01 Fusion Plastic stools, found fabric, wood, orchid clip, carved stone, inkjet print

01 Fusion Detail

02 Fusion Steel, cardboard, bungee cord, digital inkjet print

03 Fusion Aluminum cans, black tea, milk, digital inkjet print

¹ Home.
² Statement and CV.

³ Even the wind is cautious. ⁴ Feels Like an Idiom.

⁵ Open Kitchen 002.
⁶ Xin Lỗi Means Sorry.
⁷ Dragons* (a perfect pair).
⁸ Promise of An Orchid.
⁹ Something I Can Hold.