Continuing our previous post about Ly Tran Quynh Giang’s artworks featured in Conduit issue 31, please immerse yourself in the next artwork of Ly Tran Quynh Giang (Where they turn to, 2017, Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm) with the the poem “House of Body” by Pablo Saborio

Ly Tran Quynh Giang's "Where they turn to" in pair with the poem "House of Body" of Pablo Saborio in the Conduit 31

House of Body

Pablo Saborio

with its hand it felt

the sinuous edges of truth

and knitted language

as a song

into the ancient sky

this body, I believe

left behind its dumb shell

featherless and boundless

the air got drunk

from all the universe

bodiless

it began licking

the memories

of its dream

I believe

in body

that made unity

its pharaoh

went underground

carrying a sun

as diverse

as the book of autumn

with exemplary gesture

made every word

a monument

and worshiped

every grain of sand

as a thousand years of change

“Where they turn to” by Ly Tran Quynh Giang, 2017, Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm

The full cover page of the Conduit 31 issue

* 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.

It is the literary magazine featuring highlighted art from Yayoi Kusama, Marina Abramovic, Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Kruger, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol, and many others.