AIS IB Visual Art Exhibition 2021 | Hearts & Minds

So basically the central idea of my exhibition is the connection between the traditional and contemporary values as the Vietnamese society progresses. I divided my exhibition into two sections, my artworks expressing celebrating femininity and expressing hope for a safer or a better place for women. This work is called Suffocation and it talks about the feeling of being in a society and being in an overpopulated society and you feel like you're always squished. The figures in this one are plastic-like and dehumanized and they look kind of the same, like doll-like. And so I wanted to express the message that in this society everyone is kind of removed of their individuality and as they are too busy trying to work in this industrialized society they become like clones of each other. I talked to my teacher who is Mr. Hall, I told him that I'm not talented in art and Mr. Hall said that be confident, believe in yourself and it always stayed in my mind, whatever I do, it's just inspired me a lot. AIS helped me to find my exact dream and increase my skills because AIS has a lot of mentors and nice teachers to help me. Actually I want to do a major in fashion design in the U.S. and I want to be a fashion marketer or designer in my future. Actually I studied in various universities, like Parsons, Altice, Kent State University, Kent SCAD, various scholarships. Before doing IUCN IB Arts, I wasn't planning on doing art as a career. But then I had a chance to be exposed to the different materials and the different ways we can work on arts and I realized that I want to do this for the rest of my life.