Lập Phương Vietnamese, b. 1989
“What I am doing is merely dealing with myself and with the space. The works do not illustrate my emotions but the total presence of my energy and aesthetics. They have their own identity, belong to other realms of time – space, and no longer belong to me.” - Lập Phương
Lap Phuong (b.1989) graduated with a major in monumental sculpture from Hanoi University of Architecture. She established her art style early from her very first sheet metal sculptures.
Values of sculptures may arise from the nature of their materials, nurturing basic senses, including human instinctive stimulations through touching. Objects through Phuong's creation are fusion of surfaces and arrays into patterns of combinations with symmetrical structures; keen and fragile shapes that allow primitive materials to evoke, with a main focus to follow rhythms of movements that are both dramatic and in harmony. The overall impressions are minimal, sometimes highlight sharp details as reminding the sketchy style in ancient East Asian poems.
Series of Wings - Arcs - Triangles - Infinity... correspond to inevitable movement sequences from being agonistic to antagonistic and synergistic; overlaying the state of mind of a traveler who aspires for integrations of human to human and human to the natural world. The mind merges with the external world, the inner becomes one with the outer. The presence of Phuong’s works is to form, occupy and belong to the space. This way of dealing with physical and psychological spaces allows each artwork to contain an aspiration for the stature of monumental sculpture – reminding human wisdom and intuition in space-time realms.
Grasping laws of permanence, modularizing monads on the basis of materials that tends to be ephemeral; Lap Phuong's works are increasingly multi-dimensional evolving, escaping structures and laws, approaching emptiness, infinity, and impermanence.
