Á Space invites you to “At the Chimeric Edge”, the first duo presentation by Trịnh Anh and Lê Tâm, continuing their experiments with lacquer and living forms that exist beyond any stable order. Here, bodies are fragmented, branched, hybridised, and reconstituted; imagined creatures encounter bodies that have been classified, bred, utilised, and brought to death. Between memories of nature and a world increasingly reconfigured by technology, between instinct and control, life appears as an ongoing chain of transformation, where death may be only another link in the loop.
From Trịnh Anh’s imagined organisms to Lê Tâm’s controlled bodies in The Slaughterhouse, “At the Chimeric Edge” asks where human beings stand among other forms of life: are we observing nature, reproducing it, or ultimately creating a new, dreamlike nature according to structures of order that we ourselves no longer fully control?
At this edge, “the chimeric” does not necessarily describe a fictional world. It may simply be the world that quietly exists, where forms of life continue to transform before they have even been given a name.
