Thuy Tien Pham Thi

The new space

2020

Medium

Vietnamese lacquer

Dimensions

50x100 cm

80x100cm

Department

Drawing and Painting

$n.s.

A teenage girl leads a true “velvet” life but isn't always happy. The toys stacked around her show it. Dolls are just inanimate objects, when lying down, they close their eyes and only open their eyes when standing and sitting. No one can talk and confide, can't share his thoughts with the outside world. The message of the work is "another world." A world of childhood as inherently pure, innocent and full of dreams. A world like "fairy" is told by stories full of childhood: mischievousness, curiosity and discovery. You keep dreaming for the good wishes. Only beautiful wishes give us the motivation to live in this life...

The girl is the image I borrowed from my students in Vietnam. They are all teenagers, naive, innocent, but because of the development of society, they seem to be taking on the worries of the world. As adults, their studies take up a lot of their time, their parents are busy making money, their inner world is full of changes and they almost lose the most beautiful thing of their age, which is the daydreaming and experiences in life. Bright and almost no one to confide in. They have enough material things but their dreams are not shared by anyone and the innocence of this age needs to be cultivated to make life more poetic. Childhood should be a beautiful thing when we think about it.

“Velvet life” is a common term in Vietnam. Rewards in the old society of Vietnam were divided into different classes in which only the rich were allowed to wear clothes made of velvet and silk. So this phrase refers to families with a high standard of living, rich, complete, and lacking nothing. This is a metaphor in spoken culture in Vietnam.

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