Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần is an art laborer based in Saigon. She makes art collectively and individually and curates and writes for various local and international publications, exhibitions, and projects. Her artworks blend politics and sci-fi aesthetics through the assemblages of animation, 3D design, historical archives, and architecture. She creates a non-linear and absurd reading of modern histories that question the dominant post-Cold War narratives about the Third World. Arlette is obsessed with the fantasy of a futuristic Third World utopia in which political ideals are remixed, and human and non-human beings coexist and amalgamate.
Trần studied art and theories at Freie Universität Berlin, Univerzita Karlova in Prague, and California Institute of the Arts with a Fulbright scholarship. Her individual practice and collective works with Art Labor have been shown at Lagos Biennial 2024; Albertinum Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Dhaka Art Summit; 57th Carnegie International; Cosmopolis #1 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
