A2Z Art Gallery is proud to present Hom Nguyen : Sans repères, the artist’s first solo exhibtion in Hong Kong. Creating works based on his own memories is a unique artistic approach of Hom Nguyen. Portraits from his works are all projections of images in his memories. Hom’s intertwined painting technique makes these portraits complicated and confusing. Observing the paintings up close, people will see quite abstract and complicated compositions of lines, while appreciating the same paintings at a distance, a clear facial profiles surfaces and the emotions hidden in the eye expression of figures are also revealed under the interaction of light and shadow. By virtue of electronic display, audiences can also appreciate Hom’s works in another way. Fine lines on the faces of the figures are weakened on screens, bringing special appreciation experience to audiences and leaving a deeper impression on them.
The series "San Repères" focus on presenting people’s eye expression. These blurry portraits stand for masks of the immigrant groups, suggesting a sense of alienation that the artist was witness when being a fresh immigrant at the very beginning. What the mask- like portraits would like to convey are thoughts on immigrant in France in the 1970’s. The missing mouths represented communication obstacles, and the complicated feelings contained in children’s eyes reveal their confusion and a cry in silence in hopeless living status. On the basis of personal experience, the artist discusses immigrant issues arising from wars and social instability in international society through the complicated emotions which shouldn’t been found on children. At the same time, the artist draw our attention to the facts that immigrants must face many difficulties and living problems integrating in a foreign environment.
Art language of Hom Nguyen is full of energy. Hom tries to explore the true reflection of human soul, so as to on the one hand, facilitate audiences to understand his portraits, and on the other hand, to evoke audiences’ awareness of paying attention to social phenomena.