29/05/2026
‘No Longer Day, Not Yet Night’, Thu-Van Tran’s fourth solo exhibition, opens today at Almine Rech Shanghai and will be on view until August 8, 2026!
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In the series, greys are produced through a chromatic oxymoron where color is both negative and generative. When two complementary colors mix—for example, green and red, yellow and purple, blue and orange—they lose chroma, cancelling each other out to yield a chromatic grey. In turn, the grey color field produces a liminal space that carries residues of its component hues. Multiple, sometimes antagonistic, presences are held in a zone of suspension. Hues approach and recede. Every gesture remains visible as a deposit, stratified into depth like sediment. If the military logic behind the Rainbow Herbicides sought to make land fully legible and render life available to control, Tran refuses such certainties. She is here intervening in one of war’s most lasting instruments: seeing as an agent of discipline and representation as a way of managing and imagining the real. Grey, then, is an inevitability, both a visual condition and a conceptual position that seeks to rewrite the terms of the gaze. In the transparency of grey, Tran produces an order where hierarchy retreats.
— Sheau Yun Lim, curator and writer
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‘Colors of Grey’, 2026
Lime, pigment and binder on linen canvas
116 x 91 x 6 cm
45 3/4 x 35 3/4 x 2 1/4 in
‘Colors of Grey’, 2026
Lime, pigment and binder on linen canvas
95.5 x 76 x 6 cm
37 1/2 x 30 x 2 1/4 in
‘Colors of Grey’, 2026
Lime, pigment and binder on linen canvas
185.5 x 135.5 x 6 cm
73 x 53 1/4 x 2 1/4 in
Photos by Alessandro Wang
©️ Thu-Van Tran - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech
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