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We’re pleased to announce, in collaboration with Prameya Art Foundation, the screening program of The Disoriented Garden...A Breath of Dream by artist Truong Cong Tung, at Prameya Art Foundation, from 29 May 2024 to 13 July 2024.

Truong Cong Tung is the recipient of the first edition of the Han Nefkens Foundation–Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant, to which Prameya Art Foundation is a partner along with Sa Sa Art Projects (Cambodia), the Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand), Museion (Italy), and the Busan Museum of Art (South Korea). Prameya Art Foundation will host the South Asia premier of the commissioned moving image work,The Disoriented Garden...A Breath of Dream, accompanied by a rotating screening program of the artist's other films.

Centred on the concept of the garden as a living, regenerative library, The Disoriented Garden...A Breath of Dream foregrounds the ecologies that devastate what is intimate and hallow.

About Truong Cong Tung:
Born in 1986, Truong Cong Tung grew up in Dak Lak among various ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. He graduated from the Ho Chi Minh Fine Arts University in 2010, majoring in lacquer painting. With research interests in science, cosmology, philosophy and the environment, Truong Cong Tung works with a range of media, including video, installation, painting and found objects, which reflect personal contemplations on the cultural and geopolitical shifts of modernization, as embodied in the morphing ecology, belief or mythology of a land. He is also a member of Art Labor (founded in 2012), a collective working between visual art and social/life sciences to produce alternative non-formal knowledge via artistic and cultural activities in various public contexts and locales.


About Prameya Art Foundation:
Prameya Art Foundation [PRAF] is a nomadic institutional framework for the arts working out of New Delhi which maintains as its primary focus the city and the extended South Asia region. Our projects and programmes are conceptualized with curatorial agility to be responsive to creative conversations and infrastructures locally, and by building strategic partnerships and collaborations with global contexts as one way to situate practices from South Asia within extended constellations of shared concerns that may be forged across geographies. Prameya, which means knowledge in Sanskrit, informs the not-for-profit's experiments with alternative pedagogical encounters for creative practitioners, approach to the arts as a discursive space and dialogue as its future. So far this has manifested in ethically considered support structures for artists and cultural workers through residency partnerships, production grants for experimental forms of artmaking, incidents, exhibitions, workshops, screenings, transdisciplinary encounters, conversations and symposia. Through these initiatives we seek meaningful engagement with artistic communities and alternative publics that exceed the limits of the established arts context in Delhi.

PRAF was founded by Anahita Taneja and Shefali Somani after a decade of experience working in the Indian arts context to address the limited presence of institutional spaces in the region. For their work they were conferred with the insignia of Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters) by the government of France. PRAF is a member of the World Art Foundation.