
Diane Severin Nguyen. Stills from IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021. Courtesy of the artist
Diane Severin Nguyen is an American artist with Vietnamese roots. In her work, she explores how popular culture and politics are inextricably linked. Her work moves between music videos, performance and photography, and stimulates with images that are as seductive as they are disturbing.
IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS is about finding your place in today’s complex political world. In an immersive video installation, we follow a Vietnamese-Polish girl in Warsaw as she navigates a world full of conflicting expectations. Nguyen wraps her critique of power, nationalism and cultural identity in the recognisable, catchy aesthetics of K-pop.
The carefully selected photographs shown in the video installation depict moments when something is still in the making: an identity, an idea, a revolution.
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