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Moi Tran: I Love A Broad Margin to My Life

Past exhibition
15 May - 27 June 2021
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Moi Tran, The Importance of Futile Tasks - the Puzzle, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Moi Tran, The Importance of Futile Tasks - the Puzzle, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Moi Tran, The Importance of Futile Tasks - the Puzzle, 2018
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Moi Tran, The Importance of Futile Tasks - the Puzzle, 2018

Moi Tran

The Importance of Futile Tasks - the Puzzle, 2018
2000-piece puzzle in bespoke box
35 x 23cm
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Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Moi Tran, End to End 2, 2017
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Moi Tran, End to End 2, 2017
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Moi Tran, End to End 2, 2017
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Moi Tran, End to End 2, 2017
The Importance of Futile Task is an interactive puzzle that might induce a meditative activity or great frustration. Composed of 2,000 identical-looking blank, black puzzle pieces with no other discerning...
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The Importance of Futile Task is an interactive puzzle that might induce a meditative activity or great frustration. Composed of 2,000 identical-looking blank, black puzzle pieces with no other discerning features, the puzzle presents a seemingly impossible task, and therefore a futile one. This work was originally part of a collective performance in which the participating audience were invited to sit down with the artist to try to solve the puzzle, and in doing so, consider the togetherness of this activity and the capitalist exploitation of migrant labor.
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Moi Tran: I Love A Broad Margin To My Life (2021)
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