Breathe Tokyo Biennale 2025

Описание: BREATHE is a new collaboration of Nguyen Phuong Linh and Truong Que Chi, unfolding through two distinct yet interconnected bodies of work that respond to each other in material dialogue and corporeal investigation. The installation emerges like a living organism: a fabric surface printed with spongy red blocks flying and undulating; a rattan tree trunk spinning in circles as if dancing; a bicycle seat bouncing alone on a slender structure; a moving air tube striking sharply against a metal rod; and a mirror sprouting like a leaf, spinning like a carousel, reflecting a childhood photograph. A wooden goddess’s head rests on a mirrored tray, along with two old coats once belonging to their fathers.

The space operates as a mechanical body with autonomous circulation—surfaces and lines, like skin, like flesh, like veins, like hair. Heartbeat and lung rhythm, blood and air, bones and muscles. Each sculptural element contributes to a collective choreography, a meditation on a space with its own breathing pattern. Carrying the echoes of memory, the installation creates an interplay of stillness and motion, tenderness and violence, transformation and repetition, compression and release.
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Tokyo Biennale 2025
General Producer: Masato Nakamura
Curatorial members: Hiroyuki Hattori, Susumu Namikawa & Min Nishihara
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Support: The Japan Foundation Fellowship for Arts and Culture in Asia
Special Cooperation: Etoile Kaito & Co., Inc.
Technical Team: Nguyễn Như Bách, Nguyễn Thanh Long, Lê Quang Minh, Studio Articulate
Special thanks: Hộp Bookstore, Đỗ Thanh Lãng, Ba-bau AIR, Nhật Q. Võ
Video editor: Lê Xuân Tiến