CUC Gallery is very proud to announce that 3 artworks of our artist – Ly Tran Quynh Giang have been selected to feature in Conduit issue 31, the literary magazine featuring highlighted art from Yayoi Kusama, Marina Abramovic, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Kruger, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, and many others.
Conduit 31 full cover with the name of Ly Tran Quynh Giang as an artist of the issue
“Alone together” is the theme of this issue, specially tailored for this covid era. Giang's each works is presented in pairing with a poetry curated by the editor.
Ly Tran Quynh Giang's "I see in the garden" in pair with the poem "A little Bit Rain" of Melissa Studdard in the Conduit 31
A Little Bit Rain
Melissa Studdard
It seemed this bicycle was faster
when I first started. Now the afterlife
is gaining on me, and every billboard I pass
has the same five words. I know
you’d like to know what they say. But
if you’re ever going to build up those quads
you’ll to need to enter this race yourself,
I even hired the Rockettes to adorn the finish
line with their legs. All for you. That’s how much
I love you. The moon used to be yellow, but I
painted it green for your green-loving eyes, then
left a pack of cigarettes and two aspirin
on the nightstand. Maybe don’t get so drunk next
time, okay? I like it when you do that thing
with your tongue. It makes me want to get
matching tattoos. We could translate our bodies
into a new language. Your mouth a little
bit summer. My mouth a little bit rain
"I see in the garden"
Artist: Ly Tran Quynh Giang's
Dimension: 150 cm x 70 cm
Year: 2018
Oil on canvas
Image right: CUC Gallery
Conduit is a biannual literary journal that is at once direct, playful, inventive, irreverent, and darkly beautiful. Conduit publishes distinctive voices of literary merit—experimental to accessible, established to emerging—in snazzy volumes, featuring work that demonstrates originality, intelligence, courage, and humanity. Conduit champions a fresh mix of writers. If that isn't enough, Conduit reaches beyond the literary by interviewing astronomers, ethno-botanists, artists, graphic artists, and historians, et cetera, believing a vigorous imagination is one that is cross-pollinated by diverse areas of human inquiry.