Racist Paintings
Internalised Racist Paintings, 2022 - ongoing
Synthetic polymer paint on plywood boards, duratrans prints, light boxes
Dimensions variable
The Substation, 2022 - Photographer: Matthew Stanton
Untitled No. 8, Untitled No. 1, Untitled No. 6, 2020 (left to right)
Dulux oriental house paint on plywood board, found postcards
267 x 25.4 cm
The Substation, 2022 - Photographer: Matthew Stanton
Internalised Racist Paintings, 2022 - ongoing
Synthetic polymer paint on plywood boards, duratrans prints, light boxes
Dimensions variable
The Substation, 2022 - Photographer: Matthew Stanton
Untitled No. 1, (detail) 2020
Dulux oriental house paint on plywood board, found postcards
The Substation, 2022 - Photographer: Matthew Stanton
Untitled No. 6 (detail), 2020
Synthetic polymer paint on plywood boards, duratrans prints, light boxes
Dimensions variable
The Substation, 2022 - Photographer: Matthew Stanton
Untitled No. 8 (detail), 2020
Dulux oriental house paint on plywood board, found postcards
The Substation, 2022 - Photographer: Matthew Stanton
Phuong Ngo
1 Jan 2020
Racist Paintings (2020 – ongoing) is a series of works that seek to unpack art history, eugenics, language and colonialism through the use of hard-edge painting, colonial ethnography and orientalist ideologies. The works seek to do this by combining French colonial postcards from of Vietnam, lines relating to key colonial structures, and use of a limited Dulux colour pallet consisting of:
Pale Oriental
Oriental Bay
Oriental Rose
Oriental Princess
Oriental Blush
Oriental Blush Half
Oriental Blush Quarter
True Blue
Racist Paintings presented at:
‘Nostalgia For A Time That Never Was‘ The Substation, 2022
Collaborative Racist Paintings presented at: