Sung Tieu

Per Half Meter

Monochrome Layers

Sung Tieu (b. Hải Dương, Vietnam, 1987; lives and works in Berlin) ranks among the most exciting voices of her generation. At the age of five, she followed her father, who had arrived in East Germany as a contract laborer in the late 1980s, to a reunited Germany. Based on her personal experience of migration, Sung Tieu reflects on the ideological, economic, and sociopolitical structures that shape the life of our society. Her focus is on the critical infrastructures that decide who and what attains visibility. Employing a range of media including installation art, sculpture, photography, drawing, writing and sound, and found objects and mementos, the artist creates minimalist environments.

The five unique works are released in conjunction with Tieu’s experimental book project Without Full Disclosure. The monochrome wall objects were created at different potential fracking sites in Germany. The casts show the soil together with its naturally grown details that have been influenced by the industry; any change caused by fracking, an extremely controversial method of extracting oil and gas, would be fatal.