Magical Garden and more

Truong Cong Tung
2012-2014
(from the right) Truong Cong Tung, Magical Garden, 2012-2014. 8 found photographs reprinted on C-print. 40 × 30 cm each; Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. termite nest, paint. 40 × 38 × 60 cm; Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. single-channel video installation. 3 min 37 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
(from the front installation) Truong Cong Tung, Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. termite nest, paint. 40 × 38 × 60 cm; Magical Garden, 2012-2014. 8 found photographs reprinted on C-print. 40 × 30 cm each. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
(from left) Truong Cong Tung, Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. termite nest, paint. 40 × 38 × 60 cm; Magical Garden, 2012-2014. 8 found photographs reprinted on C-print. 40 × 30 cm each. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
Truong Cong Tung, Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. termite nest, paint. 40 × 38 × 60 cm. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
Truong Cong Tung, Three-staged Reality Vol.3, 2014. pencil on Mylar, plexiglass, leather, 49 pages. 26 × 37 × 1.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
(from the top) Truong Cong Tung, Magical Garden, 2012-2014. Leaf, rocks, singing birds, miniature man. 50 × 25 cm; Magical Garden, 2014. single-channel video. 8 min 20 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
Truong Cong Tung, Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. single-channel video installation. 3 min 37 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
Truong Cong Tung, Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. single-channel video installation. 3 min 37 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014
(from the right) Truong Cong Tung, *Magical Garden*, 2012-2014. 8 found photographs reprinted on C-print. 40 × 30 cm each; *Journey of a Piece of Soil*, 2014. termite nest, paint. 40 × 38 × 60 cm; *Journey of a Piece of Soil*, 2014. single-channel video installation. 3 min 37 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 *Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers*. Seoul Museum of Art. 2014

Truong Cong Tung studies Vietnamese people’s beliefs in suffering, fate and ideas of the supernatural. Like an anthropologist, he carried out field trips and research in Magic Garden in Long An Province (a private garden open to the public believed to have healing powers), where he looked into people’s spiritual beliefs and rituals, practices yet to be verified by science as a cure. In his research, he discovered belief―or, rather, delusion―is like a dream and is used as an effective tool to treat patients by psychiatrists. Cong Tung also expands his research to rituals of worshipping sacred objects believed to grant people wishes. His half-fictional, half-documentary artworks reveal layers of belief resulting from collective suffering or individual misery.
[Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, http://san-art.org/exhibition/unconditional-belief]

Magical Garden, 2014. single-channel video. 8 min 20 sec
Magical Garden, 2012-2014. 8 found photographs reprinted on C-print. 40 × 30 cm each
Magical Garden, 2012-2014. Leaf, rocks, singing birds, miniature man. 50 × 25 cm
Three-staged Reality Vol.3, 2014. pencil on Mylar, plexiglass, leather, 49 pages. 26 × 37 × 1.5 cm
Journey of a Piece of Soil, 2014. single-channel video installation. 3 min 37 sec
Journey of a Piece of Soil,2014. termite nest, paint. 40 × 38 × 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist

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