a solo exhibition by Việt Lê, presented by Sàn Art, Sài Gòn x Headlands Center for the Arts, SF Bay Area

Striding material grrrls and metaphysical worlds, spiritualities and sexualities: dios, Đĩor, noir– divas and divination–Mother Goddess and Father Time, artist Việt Lê presents a den, post-Eden. Performance-based power objects: figurative sculptural fragments (yet ensouled), video installations, flag–paintings, virtual portals— oh my, dios mio, Đổi Mới. (đến and đền means arrive, and temple, respectively: pay your respects.) In the meantime, Greenwich Mean Time. Shirley Temple cocktail cockblockchainmailchimp? My body is a temple; sashay away, as they say.   Say my name, say my name. Việt Namaste. Call me by your name, by my true names baby, maybe. Queers query, Is illness an initiation? Is pathology a power? 7/11, 9/11, the eleventh hour; elven Elvis has left the building. You have arrived.