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Comprised of seven Ho Chi Minh City-based artists and architects, Mogas Station is the result of an encounter that represents varying kinds of migration. The multicultural and interdisciplinary nature of the group illustrates the dynamism and cosmopolitanism of today’s Ho Chi Minh City.



Mogas Station presents a video titled Rokovoko, filmed in 2007 for the Venice Biennale.
Each taking turns on a white plank, the members of the collective navigate the uncontrollable sea. The immaculate raft, suggesting a chunk of an iceberg, is a virgin earth. And the raft is floating, like social and cultural phenomena establishing a relationship with a larger world.
Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down on any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Location: Fine Arts Museum - 97A Pho Duc Chinh - District 1 - Ho Chi Minh city
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aliceIN... Saigon



For the Month of Image, the work of Wonderful District will principally focus around an architectural form named aliceIN..., conceived by the architect Tam Vo Phi and the engineer Olivier Llouquet.
Although there will be one artist intervention per day, Alice will be conceived as an autonomous work that can stand alone. From outside, the viewer will see an asymmetrical and illuminated structure whose elongated appearance will be slightly modified from one location to another. This irregular and undefined structure will not only evoke an organic evolving form - a kind of larva or cocoon; it is an emblematic, sculptural structure and an exhibition space as well.
Situated at the intersection of themes researched by the Collective artists – from the adaptation of the artist to a new context, to architectural modifications and hybrid beings, the cohabitation between nature and new technologies, and the idea of nomadism – this structure will use both high- and low-tech material. These characteristics will be accentuated playfully contrasting interior and exterior.
Participants: Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Nhu Huy, Robert Cianchi, Bertrand Peret and Sandrine Llouquet.

Locations:
October 4: Fine Arts Museum - 97A Pho Duc Chinh - District 1 - Ho CHi Minh city
October 5: Galerie Quynh - 65 De Tham - District 1 - Ho Chi Minh city
October 6: IDECAF - 31 Thai Van Lung - District 1 - Ho CHi Minh city
October 7: Photography Association - 122 Suong Nguyet Anh - District 1 - Ho Chi Minh city
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