Diane Severin Nguyen is an American artist with Vietnamese roots. In her work, she explores how popular culture and politics are inextricably linked. Her work moves between music videos, performance and photography, and stimulates with images that are as seductive as they are disturbing.

Immersive video installation in K-pop style

If revolution is a sickness is about finding your place in today's complex political world. In an immersive video installation, we follow a Vietnamese-Polish girl in Warsaw as she navigates a world full of conflicting expectations. Nguyen wraps her critique of power, nationalism and cultural identity in the recognisable, catchy aesthetics of K-pop. ​

The carefully selected photographs shown in the video installation depict moments when something is still in the making: an identity, an idea, a revolution.

What can a revolution mean today?

Nguyen makes us wonder what a revolution can mean today. Behind the coming-of-age story lies a sharp view of the contemporary world: a visual trip that invites you to dance and to think about how young people develop their identity in a complex world full of expectations. ​

This is the first solo exhibition in Belgium by this internationally renowned artist. Nguyen's work has previously been exhibited at MEP (Paris), SculptureCenter (New York) and The Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).