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The research-driven artistic practice of Sung Tieu (* 1987, VN) examines the inextricable tensions between individual lived experiences and the overarching mechanisms of systemic regulation, with a critical lens on Germany’s divided history. Moving between installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, text, video, and sound, her work unveils the hidden structural logics that shape social inclusion and political existence, deconstructing categories of legality and illegality, inclusion and exclusion. Rooted in the visual language of conceptual art, Tieu has developed a distinctive style that operates at the intersection of form and function. Her practice interrogates the design, architecture, and administrative frameworks of public institutions as semiotic systems, exposing their often-overlooked dynamics of control, surveillance, and disciplining.
In her new body of work, 1992, 2025, Tieu deepens her ongoing critical engagement with the 1980 recrui…
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The research-driven artistic practice of Sung Tieu (* 1987, VN) examines the inextricable tensions between individual lived experiences and the overarching mechanisms of systemic regulation, with a critical lens on Germany’s divided history. Moving between installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, text, video, and sound, her work unveils the hidden structural logics that shape social inclusion and political existence, deconstructing categories of legality and illegality, inclusion and exclusion. Rooted in the visual language of conceptual art, Tieu has developed a distinctive style that operates at the intersection of form and function. Her practice interrogates the design, architecture, and administrative frameworks of public institutions as semiotic systems, exposing their often-overlooked dynamics of control, surveillance, and disciplining.
In her new body of work, 1992, 2025, Tieu deepens her ongoing critical engagement with the 1980 recrui…
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