This one-day exhibition has been organized in response to the news that the warehouse the gallery now occupies is slated for demolition next month.

Requiem for a wall will be the first and only exhibition in the gallery's newly renovated space.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Ha Thuc Phu Nam will present a new 7-minute single channel video titled 'Hesitation proclamations:  Uh… a proposal for a Vietnamese landscape?'  The near life-size projection features the word 'Uh...' written as a graffiti tag on various public walls throughout Ho Chi Minh City.  As passersby stroll past Uh's work and traffic whizzes along the streets, we realize that we are viewing an imagined landscape inside the artist's head.  This work explores not only Vietnam's shifting landscapes, both cultural and physical, but also questions the reality of change.  Are the changes actual or simply perceived - fleeting visions of a potential future?

Sandrine Llouquet will realize a drawing on a part of the gallery wall constructed to conceal two original windows.  The work is a poetic, ephemeral gesture that reaffirms the windows' presence.  At the same time, the drawing could also be seen as a blueprint for creation.

Et puisque cet événement avait lieu pour fêter la démolition de la toute neuve Galerie Quynh, au bout de quelques heures... le grand défouloir...

... Thanks to Phu Nam for the pictures