A new book titled 'The Disoriented Garden... A Breath of Dream' has been published by the Jim Thompson Art Center to accompany Vietnamese artist Trương Công Tùng's 2024 solo exhibition. The volume, edited by Hùng Mạnh Dương, is a multilingual, multidisciplinary collection featuring poetry, myths, curatorial texts, and photographs that mirror the artist's exploration of nature, gardens, and spiritual cosmology through video, installation, and painting.
The book matters as a significant art publication that extends the conceptual reach of Trương's exhibition, challenging conventional narrative structures and anthropocentric worldviews. It functions as an artistic object in itself, with design elements like punched holes reflecting the exhibition's themes of rupture and regeneration, offering readers an immersive, dreamlike experience that advocates for new ways of seeing and engaging with ecological and spiritual interconnectedness.