DANH VŌ

"I see myself, like any other person, as a container that has inherited these infinite traces of history without inheriting any direction. I try to compensate for this. I’m trying to make sense out of it and give it a direction for myself." — Danh Vō

Winsing Art Place Atelier is staging the first solo exhibition in Taiwan by Danish artist Danh Vō, who was born in Vietnam in 1975, during the Vietnam War. His family fled Vietnam in 1979 aboard a wooden boat made by his father Phung Vō. They had been trying to escape to the United States, but were seized by a Danish ship and then granted asylum in Denmark, where they became citizens. His dramatic life experience gave him a different perspective on the world. Vō emphasizes that his story is not just a personal memory, but reflects others' private memories under world geopolitics. By emulating a historian’s preciseness, he probes into his own experience interwoven with public history.