Little Vietnam // Will Pham

A Solo Exhibition By Will Pham

Opening 23 May 5-9pm // Including Discussion With Will Pham, Rosalie Bell And Natalie Bell.

Continues 24 May – 6 July 2019 Open Wed – Sat, 11am-5pm And Late On Thursdays Till 8pm

Turf Projects presents ‘Little Vietnam’, a new film installation by London-based artist Will Pham, continuing his ongoing engagement with British Vietnamese refugee community centres and their political practices. ‘Little Vietnam’ traces the stories of different, yet connected, refugee groups from the 1980s to the present, who have built communities in the UK. These include The An Viet Foundation, The Vietnamese Mental Health Services, Lien Viet Housing Association and Little Vietnam Restaurant, all based in London. Using methods including workshop facilitation, oral history interviewing, and archival research, Will Pham offers proposals for how to grapple with contemporary society, through minority methodologies. For the film, ‘Little Vietnam’ (2019), Will Pham reverses the focus onto himself, using his family run restaurant to explore refugee collective and political practices.

At Turf Projects, the exhibition will evolve with a programme of events and workshops led by WillPham, to explore these histories, and think about methods for collective working now. Contributors will undertake a community filmmaking workshop that expands on ideas in the ‘Little Vietnam’ film. This exhibition aims to support future alliances between Will Pham’s art practice and his family’s restaurant, ‘Little Vietnam’.

// ABOUT WILL PHAM

Will Pham (b.1990, London) is an artist working in socially engaged practise. He graduated from BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2013 and Postgraduate Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools in 2018. He was awarded the ‘Breathe’ residency from the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester to visit Taipei Artist Village (2018), ‘Gasworks International Fellowship’ to visit Hangar, Lisbon (2015) and the ‘CCW Artists Moving Image Award’ at The South London Gallery (2011). He lives and works in London.