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January 11 – February 28, 2020 · Saigon Domaine, Ground Floor, 1057 Binh Quoi, Ward 29, Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City
The series comprises digital paintings exploring supernatural forces and unconscious worlds. Le created intricate collages combining original painting, art historical references, photography, and digital elements. Each piece functions as a portal into the whimsical world of the artist's imagination, intermingling personal memories and lyrical narratives freed from logic.
"In Frozen Data, digital paintings eventually evolved into multiple frames of seven animated videos that lasted for approximately twelve hours… Drawing each colorful splinter and fragment was a meticulous, obsessive act of mark-making, depicting each abstract stream of thought in an enchanting yet tangled inner world, a vastness of ephemerality that's ghostlike..."
— MoT+++ collective, in memoriam:
"A man lead us to the back of the temple, walked us up a few steps to an open room where all walls are covered with shelves piled up with thousands of urns with people id photos on. A woman from the temple showed us one of the two urns on a table in front of the altar, a small white ceramic lotus shape urn with a tiny id picture of you on it. The temple woman took the roses from us, placed them on top of your urn, and gave us some incense. We stood there, staring at the perception of your remains. Each of us started to process the unbelievable reality. You are gone.
Those have became your last messages to me. Everything was about making better works. It doesn't matter how much we assured you that your works are great, you were never satisfied with yourself. Indeed, you were far from being satisfied but more obsessed with the possibility of being better, to the perfection that simply doesn't exist in this world.
What have we all missed here? Time. Our time with you was so little…
We all failed to make you stay longer with us. Nevertheless, while you start your new journey to explore the unknown, the parallel universe, hopefully as vibrant and magic as in your last works, with different dimensions of time which could unleash all our regrets, your Frozen Data will keep melting into this world, into our collective memory, will live on with us and continue to experience our notion of time on this beautiful planet."
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