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Born out of a uterus I had nothing to do with

Danh Vo

2013
Ink writing by Phung Vo and Corona-Victoria beer box found in Mexico city, gilded in Thailand
630 grms
Winsing Arts Collection

Image courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City. Photo by Alessandro Wang.

Born out of a uterus I had nothing to do with

Danh Vo

2013
Ink writing by Phung Vo and Corona-Victoria beer box found in Mexico city, gilded in Thailand
630 grms
Winsing Arts Collection

"All this information existed within the idea of beer brands, and it was obvious for me to want to work with them because it was so perverse." he said, who came up with this idea during a trip to Spain. "Of course, I'm going to use it for creation." He collected discarded cartons of beer, cigarettes, grains or condensed milk, sent them to Thailand, and he used trademarks printed and covered in gold foil. He beautified a cheap item and added new artistic value. The traces left by the plain cartons include the manufacturing process, the gold foil affixed by Danh Vō, the hand-painted words by his father, and the postage stamps and handwritten addresses of the mail, each aspect of which highlights the issues of consumer values, international trade, labor, and religion.

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Image courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City. Photo by Alessandro Wang.
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Image courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City. Photo by Alessandro Wang.
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Image courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City. Photo by Alessandro Wang.
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Artist Biography
Danh Vō
The artist won the first prize at the 2012 Hugo Boss Award and entered the Venice Biennale on behalf of Denmark in 2015. His works and various art projects are also exhibited in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Pompidou Centre in France, the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland, M+ in Hong Kong, the Berlin Biennale and the Singapore Biennale, among other large art galleries and exhibitions. He explores the inheritance and construction of cultural conflicts, trauma and values, and addresses issues of history, politics, faith and identity in a poetic way.
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