So Be It
18/09 - 19/10, 2025
A solo exhibition by Minh Ngoc Nguyen
In So Be It, Minh Ngoc Nguyen constructs glossy, surreal still lifes where humor, seduction and estrangement converge. Drawing on the visual language and technical conventions of commercial photography, he isolates and reconfigures everyday objects, transforming them into compositions that are at once playful and destabilising.
Nguyen’s images negotiate the intimate and the collective, carrying personal nostalgia while resonating on broader cultural wavelengths. They show how the personal intersects with the universal, how distant memory collides with Nordic restraint, and how stereotypes may be dismantled through strategies of playful deconstruction.
Photo: Kevin Josias