Anh Yēu Em

Xxavier Edward Carter with TABATHA TROLLI
Anh Yēu Em
April 11 – May 11, 2021

Anh Yēu Em translates to “I love you,” said from the masculine perspective in the Vietnamese language. The works of Anh Yēu Em meditate on life, death, love, worship, and the elemental body’s movement between the corporeal to the spiritual through our body’s ecological realities and projections toward an unknowable future. Anh Yēu Em presents space, vessel, image, and the human body in presence and absence, as an installation for exploring reality and our place in the world. A mural scale drawing on paper, ceramic totems, performance, and sculpture create the installation. Anh Yēu Em is man’s interior world processed through what is seen, what is lost, and what is to come in the ever-changing world.

Is to love ultimately to lose? And if so, is life ultimately the movement to become lost? Is the death the body’s memory of what there is becoming? Anh Yēu Em are the last words absorbing all the possibilities of becoming.