You are allowed to mix apples and pears
Kvet Nguyen
When crossing borders, do you think about what you will become? Despite living on the other side of the world for over 30 years, my parents still call Vietnam their home. Their migration to Slovakia has turned both of my parents into foreigners of their own. Their identity resembles a vast landscape of collected diversities. At some point, every single memory or thought that felt new, gradually became familiar. You exist in a place with a hint of your past where you blend in with the present. And to blend in means becoming a person within a person, a piece of one world within another.
Kvet Nguyen (Hoa Nguyen Thi) is slovak-vietnamese artist based in Bratislava. Cultural clash of two different realities is the basis for every thinking process and eventually the dominant subject in her works.
She completed her master’s degree in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava within she attended interns in Plymouth College of Art in England and the Royal Academy of Art in Netherlands. Her works have been exhibited in slovakian and international context (Soda Gallery, Čepan Gallery, OFF Festival, Nitra Gallery, Karlín Studios in Prague, Galeria Promocyjna, Krakow and at the presentation of photo books in Poznań (2017), and at LIVRE PARIS (2019) in France.
https://kvetnguyen.com/project/you-are-allowed-to-mix-apples-and-pears-here/