WORKS
Arte Fare extends Beneath the Membrane (2025), continuing our practice-led research into intergenerational and cultural gender norms in Vietnam through mixed-media installation and collaborative making between husband and wife. Using domestic materials, memories, care, and intimate experiences, the project examines how gender expectations are reproduced, negotiated, and disrupted. Arte Fare introduces these investigations into an art-market context, enabling us to explore relationships between gender, visibility, valuation, and commercial value. Its unconventional spatial structure further allows us to examine how exhibition environments shape audience encounters and meaning, transforming intimate domestic experiences into public artistic and commercial contexts.
Beneath the Membrane is a two-year project that originated from the artists’ shared experience of living and working together as both partners in life and collaborators in art. Their joint practice has become an exercise in observation and reflection, on the division of roles, time, and decision-making, as well as on layers of emotional labor where love and empathy are constantly interwoven with individual dispositions and broader social expectations of gender. The exhibition brings together video, sculpture, photography, and diverse materials such as beads, pumice stone, the body, sound, and domestic objects.
Rather than offering definitive conclusions, the exhibition exists as an open space where the invisible mechanisms shaping shared life and collaboration gradually come to the surface.