The Buddha on the High Line
Tuan Andrew Nguyen’s twenty-seven-foot-tall Buddha sculpture repurposes remnants of war to examine forgotten histories and envision new possibilities for healing.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Tuan Andrew Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist based primarily in Saigon. His practice explores the power of memory and its potential to act as a form of political resistance. Through his continuous attempts to engage with vanishing or vanquished historical memory, Nguyen investigates the erasures that the colonial project has brought to bear on certain parts of the world. Through collaborative endeavors with various communities throughout the world, he explores memory as a form of resistance and empowerment, emphasizing the power of storytelling as a means for healing, empathy, and solidarity.
Podcasts
Reincarnating the Buddhas of Bamiyan
The story behind the twenty-seven-foot-tall Buddha atop New York City’s High Line
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