KV Duong's radical materiality debuts at Pippy Houldsworth

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting London based artist KV Duong’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Where Wound Becomes Water. KV Duong (b.1980, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) is an ethnically Chinese artist with a transnational background - born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, and now living and working in the UK. In Where Wound Becomes Water, Duong presents paintings on latex set alongside an installation inspired by the homes of Vietnamese immigrant families living in London social housing in the 1980’s. Where Wound Becomes Water, the exhibition’s namesake, takes the form of a five-panel painting of a bomb pond in rural Vietnam. Duong’s Bomb Pond series depicts the present-day bodies of water that have formed in the thousands of craters left by the Vietnam War, as nearly three million tons of explosives were dropped by U.S. forces between 1964 and 1973. Painted here in fiery hues against the natural yellow of his fleshy latex