25 Jan 2025—23 Feb 2025

TCB Gallery

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Two large scale pencil and charcoal drawings on architectural paper, hand-sewn with waxed thread

 

This large-scale drawing installation Tracing Memory: Grandmother’s Tea Room, reimagines Pham’s grandmother's 1900s home in Hanoï Vietnam, through charcoal and pencil drawings on paper. This installation involves the creation of life-sized drawings that reimagine the rooms of Pham’s grandmother’s early 20th century Hanoï home, a home that has little to no visual records and can no longer be accessed. Pham draws these two life-sized impressions through listening to family accounts of what the space looked like through the memories of her mother and aunt. Like memory, it is translucent and fluent and ultimately an interpretive silhouette of what the objects and architectural features of her grandmother’s tea room may have been. This first edition of the larger project, which eventually seeks to redraw the entire home, is presented here with the first room, Pham’s grandmother’s tearoom with a reimaging of a primary piece of furniture and the iron-worked window.

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Curated by Sunny Tinkler

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IMAGES OF EXHIBITION INSTALLATION: Nina Rose Prendergast

STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY: Victoria Pham

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