Justine nguyễn-nguyễn - Talisman 018

6 x 3"

freehand embroidery on pieceworked cotton canvas

2023

justine hồng-giang nguyễn-nguyễn was born on a Monday morning; today, nguyễn-nguyễn is making, mending, and writing. Building upon experience as a garment worker, n-n converses with the cultural and corporeal histories of the hand-me-down. Interstitial, associative, and process-oriented, n-n’s practice between text and textiles resembles a form of nesting. Alongside a textile repair service, nguyễn-nguyễn is working on an interlingual poetic manuscript, "second chants," which draws upon clumsy translation and reduplication to frame familiarity/foreignness and accumulation/erosion as binocularity, rather than binary.