Alison Nguyen

Alison Nguyen on view now at the Chengdu Biennale in Symbiosis in Domain Shift 遷域共生 curated by Jay Xu.

Chengdu Biennale
Exhibition Period: 8 February - 23 August 2026
Venue: Chengdu Museum of Art

In Symbiosis in Domain Shift, artists examine how histories, technologies, and migrations reconfigure the conditions of belonging. The exhibition foregrounds practices that dissolve boundaries of place and time, enabling coexistence between past and present, virtual and material, local and global. Domain Shift names the movement of forms, ideas, and people across contexts and invites an open artistic stance: to rethink human-world relations through flows, entanglements, and mutual transformation.

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Alison Nguyen's Prosthetic Memory assembles two interrelated installations that probe how media technologies mediate personal and collective histories. Through layered imagery and sensory augmentation, Nguyen treats memory as a portable, engineered extension of the body—one that can be transferred, edited, and recontextualized. The work asks viewers to consider how technological prostheses reshape identity, alter historical narratives, and produce new forms of communal remembrance.