Brian Vu

Lives and works in Seattle, WA, USA

Artist statement

A cup leaves a circular stain on a table: it is picked up and placed down on the same spot again, and again. It is both intentional and involuntary. It is a consistent improvisation; repeating learned, improving mundane daily tasks towards an unconscious efficiency and intended function. I am interested in creating props or stand-ins that reference the household and the performance of daily functions that become emotionless yet still essential. My compositions address the improvisation of memory with the mundane and domestic. References and rhythms become more abstract, minimal and analogous to each other, effectively queering the languages. I aim to render ceramic and non ceramic materials with equal importance that then arrive at intersectional, nuanced, and formal conversations.

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