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Trọng Gia Nguyễn

Breonna Taylor’s Clock from the series Perpetual Paintings, 2025

SketchUp file, output as archival print on Hahnemühle hemp paper, angle and/or dimensions unique

60 x 60 x 3 cm (23.62 x 23.62 x 1.18 in)

Inv: TGN_2025-002

€1,800

Available

Breonna Taylor’s Clock transforms a bullet-pierced domestic object into a monument of interrupted time. The clock no longer measures hours, but marks a rupture, the moment when private life collided with state violence. Digitally reconstructed and endlessly reproducible, the work resists erasure, carrying the weight of a life cut short and a justice endlessly deferred.

This logic of survival through circulation underpins Perpetual Paintings, the series to which the work belongs. Created after a flood destroyed much of Trọng Gia Nguyễn’s archive, the project begins with digital compositions in SketchUp made from open-source 3D models. Designed to be shared, re-viewed, and remade, the works challenge ideas of permanence, authorship, and ownership, turning loss into an ongoing, living archive.

About the artist

Trọng Gia Nguyễn

Vietnamese

b. 1971

Trọng Gia Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American artist, writer, curator, and designer living and working between Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Brussels, Belgium. His diverse body of works examines the fragility of personal history and structures of power in their myriad forms.

Regularly employing humor while at other times engaging sober reflection, Trọng’s work elevates the condition of doubt as it reveals and disrupts the undercarriage of our most trusted spaces – domestic, cultural, political, and economical. His scope of production includes everything from painting, to installation, film, sculpture, performances, web-based projects, and iPhone applications.

Crossing over into design and fashion, he has collaborated with brands such as Ordinaire, LA Loop, Be&D, and Lacoste. Trọng has exhibited in galleries and museums internationally, including Galerie Bao (Paris), Galerie Quynh (Ho Chi Minh City), La Patinoire Royale (Brussels), NON (Berlin), The Private Museum (Singapore), and Orange County Museum of Art (California), etc. His works are represented in notable private and public collections including Cornell Museum of Fine Arts, 21st Century Hotels, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art, Servais Family Collection, Foundation CAB, and many others.
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