Caroline HO-BICH-TUYEN DANG
(Australia/Vietnam)
Gallery 1 (rear)

Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang’s current work uses ‘nettings’ in various forms to investigate the idea of permanency, the process of time and environmental concerns. Dang, who is currently based in the Blue Mountains, uses stone, paper, string and plastic nets to explore these ideas. Her materials suggest fragility and the changing of structures over time.

Like Linde Ivimey, Dang investigates the memory of organic objects, however her specific interest lies in the ideas of (im)permanency and the shifting state of being. Her current focus explores the metaphysical life of things rather than the purely functional. This is illustrated in her cloud catching nets, rendered in gouache, and her ‘captured’ stones suspended in hand crocheted nets. In her cloud images Dang explores the idea of catching or holding onto the unobtainable, while in her captured stones installation she investigates notions of transitory suspension and inevitable change.