Art Project – Air Skylen
To fly is one of the deepest dream of humans. The myth of Icarus has always inspired our imagination. The Futurism art movement in the early 20th century emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, through the flying machines.
Quang Lam is interested to study the modernity (of Vietnam) by its industrial and technology’s development through this universal desire. This point of view has rarely used to understand the art history of the country.
Project Air SkyLen
The project is to build a virtual airline company named Air SkyLen
Airlines are the symbols of the technology’s level of a country. It also shares the values also international connections and exchanges. Air SkyLen is derived also from the term Skyline, which is the apparent juncture of earth and sky, the horizon. It is often used to describe the silhouette of cities skyscrapers against the sky.
Machines are now part of the “cosmology”: the “animating principle” is brought nowadays by technologies. One miss to understand this will not seize the Zeit Geist of our contemporary world where virtual worlds allow the possibility to be ubiquitous, flying everywhere without restrictions.
Developing countries such as Viet Nam has a history of modernity but it has been hidden by the official colonial discourse. Air SkyLen project reveals its existence by using Airline and Urbanism as the key contemporary symbols of Icarus and Daedalus.
This project is a wide project and has been displayed in several exhibitions in Phnom Penh ( Cambodia), Hanoi (Vietnam) and Singapore.
It has been gone worldwide with the online biennale TheWrong
This page is the main entrance to the diverses “routes” already connected by this art project
Exhibitions
2020 – Art installation in Phnom Penh : Air Skylen – Skyliners Crashes
2022 – Art installation in Hanoi : Air Skylen – Airports
2023 – Art installation at Singapore : XEM Exhibition – Meta Far-East
Interactive Play the game Crash for Trees
Interactive Play the game Crash UnderWater
Archives
For our projects, we collect theses exclusives archives we personally own the materials, press articles, photography, various objects.
Read the history of Air Vietnam – The untold history, 1951-1975
Read the birth of Air Vietnam – The creation of the airline company in 1950
Read the Air Vietnam – News in the 70s
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Art Project – Air Skylen
Title : Air vietnam, airline history - field airport, circa 1950, Indochina era - Original archive of the gallery
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Title : Postcard Hanoi to Paris verso
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Title : Air Skylen ready-made airmail
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Title : Air Skylen Installation view
Title : Installation with Arcade Game
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Title : Hong Kong Skyliner #2
Title : Osaka Skyliner #2
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Title : Hanoi Map
More photos : antique and vintage style from our exclusive collection
The gallery is deeply committed to present the history of Vietnamese photography through original documents. These photographs are contextualized within their historical and social framework. Read all archives and browse all photos.