News in May: Photo London, Residency, and Research Show at the RCA
May is a full one. Garden of Entanglement was showing at Photo London 2026 at Olympia, London. Thank you to everyone who came by.
I wish you could ever hear me. No. 5 (2026), corroded UV print, aluminum. 85 × 54 × 5 cm
Latency of the Memory (2025), quadriptych, UV photographic print on oxidified steel and aluminium, sonified data from tree’s resonance, motion shaker, amplifier, iphone, cooling fan and cable. 50 x 100 x 7.5 cm.
I wish you could ever hear me. No. 2 (2025), acryl and UV print on steel and aluminum, corroded and heat-treated. 79 × 54 × 7,5 cm
Hiền Hoàng at Photo London 2026
On 26 – 28 May, I’ll be showing at Research Journey, the MRes group show at the Royal College of Art, Hangar, London. This is the first public presentation from How to Touch the Elephant, my research into ecological trauma in post-Agent Orange landscapes in Vietnam.
At the center of the show is a methodology I’ve been developing called Shifting Modes of Witnessing– a framework for approaching landscapes that have been harmed, built on the conviction that witnessing requires more than looking, and that what we do with what we find is not optional. The show is open to everyone.
Constellation II (2026–ongoing), three UV-printed aluminium plates, steel frame. Frame: 70 × 120 × 20 cm. Plates: 57 × 40 × 0.7 cm, 50 x 35 x 0.7 cm, and 57 × 20 × 0.7 cm
Slow Sculpture: Ground (2026–ongoing), steel, corrosion. 90 x 90 x 40 cm
From 13 May to 6 June, I’m in residence at Kulturfabrik in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. I’m here to look at what that history left behind: in the materials themselves, in the land, in what the people who live here still carry. This connects directly to what my practice keeps coming back to: that matter holds evidence longer than memory does, and that making that evidence visible is both an artistic and an ethical problem.
Hiền Hoàng in front of the Bridderhaus, Esch-zur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 2026
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