New Victimhood
Artist
Diane Severin Nguyen
(American, born 1990)
Date2019
MediumLightJet chromogenic print and aluminum frame
DimensionsOverall including frame: 15 × 10 in. (38.1 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment
Object number2021.6.1
Label TextDiane Severin Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American artist born in 1990 in Carson, California. She works with found objects and organic matter to make the amalgam sculptures featured in her photographs and time-based media. Her pictures evoke an “architecture of emotions,” but also fundamental bodily functions. Over the years, Nguyen has experimented with chromogenic prints, capturing detailed close-ups of small-scale sculptures that often appear plant-based, coagulating, metallic, and wet. Transient prosthetic lighting, such as the glow of sunset, an iPhone flash, battery-powered LEDs, or fire, is also used so that the camera intervenes moments before these temporary arrangements and the lighting changes. As a result, she captures an ineffable moment during a state of transformation, often of the moment of instability before the matter falls apart.Status
On viewLocation
- Moulton Hall (1 University Drive), Floor 1, 100 A Hallway
