Review: “Becoming Alice: Through the metal tunnel” at The Outpost, Hanoi

The group exhibition “Becoming Alice: Through the metal tunnel” gathers an ensemble of thirteen artists who explore unbridled metamorphosis through multifarious approaches to portraiture. With each work, the individual identities of the artists become enmeshed in a fantastical nexus of personal and sociopolitical entanglements. One can perceive a disquieting energy emitting from Lý Trần Quỳnh Giang’s I see in the garden 2, 2018, which depicts an ephemeral violinist with a swirling body of brushstrokes and engorged eyes that daringly stare back at viewers. Nearby, a soundtrack of Vietnamese carols emanates from Quỳnh Đông’s painterly video Sweet Noel, 2013, which unpacks the complexities of female representation and romanticization through ironically kitschy visuals...

Learn more