Yui Nguyen
Academic Artist
10
Years in Practice
The Horizon
Chân Mây mặt Đất
Medium:
Watercolor
Size:
80 x 100 cm
31.5 × 39.4 in
Year:
2023
A road pulls inward between gold canopies toward a pale church set under a crimson sky. Watercolor sits in dense, velvety layers, so trees read as textured blocks and the avenue becomes a single, directional plane. The sky’s stacked reds compress depth, pushing architecture and foliage forward into the same register. The title evokes the idiom where sky and earth meet at the horizon, an image of distance and longing that here becomes a fixed, central vanishing point. The scene draws on Tbilisi in autumn, when boulevards line with yellow leaves, and on Georgian ecclesiastical silhouettes with their tapering volumes and conical roofs. These references situate the work without literal specificity.
about the artist
Yui Nguyen is a writer and visual artist in Ho Chi Minh City. He contributes cultural pieces to Vietcetera, where his work connects everyday life to design, language, and craft, in a clear, conversational voice. In the studio he moves between painting, calligraphy, and language experiments. He co-leads Our Vietnamese Project with Pham Phan Nhan, a research practice that treats Vietnamese as a living system inside computational art.
In 2025 the project was named a Lumen Prize Literature and Poetry Award finalist. The shortlist credits Nhan Phan and Yui Nguyen for work that probes the monosyllabic structure of Vietnamese through custom tools and poetics.