Garden Of Entanglement by Hiền Hoàng at Foam

The solo exhibition encourages a multi-sensory reflection on the connection between humans and nature.

Overview

Hoàng's practice is deeply shaped by interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists and technologists which reveal the ambivalent role of technology as both a means to understand nature and a force that distances us from it.

Her multidisciplinary work seamlessly weaves together photography, sculpture, video, installation, and performance. Central to her work is the theme of migration—explored not only through the personal lens of her family’s history, but also through the lasting traces of colonialism embedded in nature. In the exhibition Garden of Entanglement, Hoàng explores these narratives through three of her recent projects: Garden of Entanglement, Scent from Heaven, and Across the Ocean.

Hiền Hoàng is the 18th winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award, a photography prize aiming to support generational talents and provide a platform for photographers from across the world. This prize has been organised by Foam every year since 2007 and is awarded to young photographers by an international independent professional jury. The jury for 2024 consisted of: John Fleetwood (curator and head of the BA Photography at the KABK and director of Photo in South-Africa), Anna-Alix Koffie (artistic director, editor and founder of, among other things, OFF the wall cultures photo), Felipe Romero Beltrán (Foam Paul Huf award winner of 2023), Kathrin Schönegg (curator, author and department head of photography at the Munchner Stadtmuseum) and Kim Sunyoung (writer and senior curator at Museum Hanmi).