thảo bùi

  • moving image
    • descriptors i: blind/sighted (2025)
    • brighter days (2024)
    • blowing/breathing (2023)
  • participatory
    • everyday notes (2025)
  • photography
    • everything that tries (2024)
    • soft tissue (2023)
    • 1/4 (2023)
  • drawing
    • head/first (2023)
  • about
  • contact

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thảo bùi

  • moving image
    • descriptors i: blind/sighted (2025)
    • brighter days (2024)
    • blowing/breathing (2023)
  • participatory
    • everyday notes (2025)
  • photography
    • everything that tries (2024)
    • soft tissue (2023)
    • 1/4 (2023)
  • drawing
    • head/first (2023)
  • about
  • contact
A glass of dark liquid placed on a blue floral tablecloth, with liquid spilled around its base.

This series gathers staged still lifes in which everyday objects stand in for bodily urges, hesitations, and contradictions. 

Moving between humor and unease, the images look at intimacy as something unstable: desire shifting shape, affection becoming pressure, and closeness slipping into confusion or ache.

Three pastel balloons and deflated balloon fragments arranged on the edge of a table.
A long striped lollipop resting on a round table draped with white fabric.
Cut bitter melon standing upright on a silver tray, arranged in a sculptural composition.
A banh mi filled with sliced chilies and kumquats placed on a floral-patterned surface.
Close-up of an open mouth holding a purple flower between the teeth and tongue.
Passion fruit pulp and yellow liquid on a white plate.
Yellow dead butterflies floating in water inside a white toilet bowl.
Three sausages covered with toothpicks arranged in parallel on a white background.
A hand holding a cross-section of a watermelon with holes visible on the surface.
A hand covered in soap foam holding a pink lotus flower against a neutral background.
A figure lying behind a white table, arms extended forward, with a pink lotus flower resting across the body.
A bare torso holding a watermelon covered with toothpicks.
A hand holding a paper airplane folded from ceremonial joss paper carrying a birthday candle against a black background.