Diagonale du fou
Pencil, China ink, watercolor on paper (70 x 50cm), 2012
courtesy Galerie Quynh
Untitled
Pencil, China ink, watercolor on paper (70 x 50cm), 2012
courtesy Galerie Quynh
Sergueï Constantinovitch Pankejeff
Pencil, China ink, watercolor on paper (70 x 50cm), 2012
courtesy Galerie Quynh
untitled, videoprojection, wall draw
I would prefer not to, Give Art, Singapore, 2011
Untitled
Pencil, watercolor and China Ink on paper (42 x 29.7cm), 2009
private collection
Landscape in the Wunderkammer
Chinese ink, pencil and watercolor on paper (29,7 x 42 cm), 2011
private collection
untitled
Chinese ink on paper (29,7 x 42 cm), 2011
courtesy Give Art
The Study
Chinese ink, pencil and watercolor on paper (29,7 x 42 cm), 2011
courtesy Give Art
What do you go by:
uhh… by plane?
Years you've existed:
from 17 to 36 (I can’t exactly remember before)
What do you do for a living that makes you “dope” and “awesome”:
I don’t know how it makes me but I do art, illustration and sometimes VJing. And I am a mother and a lover.
Where do you reside:
Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
You're smart, please tell us your philosophy towards life:
I recently had a revelation that my philosophy wasn’t really a smart one so “I would prefer not to” speak about it…
How did you discover your talent for art:
When I was a teenager, people around me were telling me that I had a talent for art. However, from that starting point I had to work for many years before becoming what I consider an artist. You cannot be an artist just because you were born with a certain aptitude, you have to work hard.
How has art/design shaped your life:
Art has given my life a certain freedom, of course, but it has also made it perfectly unsafe. When you decide to be an artist – unless you’re already rich – you have to make a lot of sacrifices. You can be poor one day and sleeping in a palace the next day, but you never feel safe. I think art saved me in a way because I always have had my own little world in which I can take refuge and help me support the hard times. However, this position has its disadvantages; sometimes when you have to face reality, it is very difficult.
What goes on in your mind when you create an art piece:
When I am about to start to draw: ideas, images, words and memories come as layers in my mind. Then I push the brightness and the contrast to the maximum. I flatten the whole thing and something appears, simple and minimal. All that is superfluous has disappeared. When I do an installation, it is a bit of the same process. I want people to feel the installation as if they were entering into one of my drawings.
Have you worked with anyone you looked up to as an artist and how was the experience:
I work beside - and also sometimes with - my partner Bertrand Peret for 13 years. He is exactly my opposite but he is my first and best critical eye, as I am in return. I would never be at this level with my art without him.
Where do you want to see yourself in the next few years when it comes to art:
New York, London, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro… well everywhere I haven’t been yet! And I want to be able to offer a decent life to my family.
What is the greatest compliment anyone has ever paid to you regarding your art work:
One day a friend of mine, who is also one of my first collectors, told me that my drawings were making him feel deeply good. I couldn’t imagine one can “feel good” when looking at my drawings – rather the opposite – but I kind of understood what he meant and I was very touched by this compliment.
Who are the up and coming local Vietnamese artists we should keep a look out for:
Most of the “Vietnamese” artists that you see on the international art scene are “viet kieu” (Vietnamese who grew up oversea) like me. Dinh Q. Le, Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba, Rich Streitmatter Tran, Tiffany Chung… you may have already seen their work here in Singapore. My good friends Hoang Duong Cam and Bui Cong Khanh (“local Vietnamese”) are also exhibiting oversea for a few years and have interesting work. There’s also Nguyen Manh Hung and Vu Nhat Tan, a great sound artist. In the younger generation, keep an eye on Phan Thi Thao Nguyen, a very good painter, she studied here at LaSalle and is now doing a masters in Chicago.
How did Wonderful District come about:
Wow, it’s a very long story to resume in a few words… Well, Bertrand and I started to work together under the name of Wonderful in France. We were organizing art events, we published a magazine, we did workshops… and after 5 years we decided to leave France and come to Vietnam. We changed our name into Wonderful District, did some events and started a weekly program of exhibitions, performances, conferences by local and foreign artists in our own studio (Atelier Wonderful). We also created an art piece together called AliceIN. It’s a small nomadic architecture that goes together with a new artist intervention each time it is exhibited. Parallel to that we also created a collective of Vietnamese based artists called Mogas Station and started to organize parties with our crew of DJs and VJ, “Jetlag”.
Now we have also a “business” side; we are part of “Digital Mekong”, a network made up of a web designer, a graphic designer (Bertrand), a photographer, a filmmaker, a mobile applications developer, an illustrator (me) and a marketing guy. And I created “Tumtum Tree”, a little illustration agency.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given:
That I should continue to do my art.
Show us some cool links:
links related to this interview:
http://sandrinellouquet.over-blog.com
http://www.wonderfuldistrict.org
http://bertrand.peret.over-blog.com/
other links:
http://saigoncreative.blogspot.com/
http://ilovesorbet.blogspot.com/
published on: http://awe50me.com/2011/08/28/sandrine-llouquet/
photo: Julien Smith
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