Have a good rest! #1
2024
30 x 60 x 180cm
Hand embroidered with used-to-be nomad clothes, fashion waste, Sơn-ta-lacquered leaf skeleton.
From the bustling fashion scenes of London and Hanoi to the serene path of solo travel spanning Iran to Timor-Leste, since 2016, I have been embracing the ethos of "Busy Living Slow." In a world of fast-paced art industry, I realized the resonance between my Busy Living Slow lifestyle and Karl Marx's ideologies of work and the timeless wisdom that lies in Sei Shonagon’s The Pillow Book. Have a Good Rest ! is my ode to this unrushed pace, reminding us of the power of rest as both rejuvenation and resistance. Lay your head on my pillow book, and rest as you protest.
Have a good rest! is also showed at Untitled Art Fair, Miami Brach 2024 at the Special Project Booth: Contain and Mend presented by Transmitter.
Means of Production Exhibition curated by Lunch Hour
at the Sheerly Touch-Ya and Shisanwu LLC warehouse, New York
Photos by Daniel Terna