All That We Are Is What We Hold In Our Outstretched Hands Tuan Andrew Nguyen All That We Are Is What We Hold In Our Outstretched Hands Tuan Andrew Nguyen
February 11—March 25, 2023
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

All That We Are Is What We Hold In Our Outstretched Hands Tuan Andrew Nguyen

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Exhibition view, All That We Are Is What We Hold In Our Outstretched Hands, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, United Kingdom, February 11 - March 25 2023. Photo © Alan Dimmick 2023. Courtesy of Tuan Andrew Nguyen, James Cohan, New York, and Centre for Contemporary Arts.

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This exhibition centres on Tuan’s 2019 film, The Specter of Ancestors Becoming made in collaboration with Raw Material Company in Dakar, Senegal. The work envisions the memories and desires of the descendants of the tirailleurs sénégalais, West African colonial soldiers who were among the French forces sent to combat Vietnamese liberation uprisings in the 1940s.

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Tuan Andrew Nguyen

Tuan Andrew Nguyen was born in 1976 in Saigon, Viet Nam. In 1999, Nguyen graduated from the Fine Arts program at the University of California, Irvine, and completed a Master of Fine Arts in...