Tia-Thuy Nguyen: Fields of Resonance

Almine Rech Shanghai is pleased to present ‘Fields of Resonance’, Tia-Thuy Nguyen’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from August 28 to October 31, 2026.

Cloudscapes are endlessly mutable. Yet observed from the same place over the course of a year, they reveal recurring patterns of their own. Much like climate, every place is marked by recurring patterns of cloud cover—dense or sparse, light or heavy, each season bringing with it a familiar sky.

Towering cumulus clouds—a familiar presence in the skies of Vietnamese artist Tia-Thuy Nguyen’s hometown—occasionally appear in continental landscapes far drier than Vietnam. When they do, they can leave people, half in jest, wondering: Am I still here? Or have I somehow arrived in another city? Fleeting and ever-changing, clouds possess a quiet yet remarkable ability to unsettle our confidence in the reality we inhabit, if only for a moment.
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— Ying, writer and editor