Fresh Faces: Hà Ninh Pham

Hà Ninh Pham, ‘Residences [0.3.0]’, diptych, 2022, graphite and ink on paper mounted on PVC panel, 111 x 110cm.

Since the lockdown in mid-2021, I have been constructing a language called LoopScript. Starting as the script of my monologue, this language does not have phoneticproperties. It can be written and read, but not spoken.

This language lacks the linear structure of our normal languages. Its “words” can connect to other words by chains and knots to possibly form infinite sentences. The meanings and tones can be guessed by considering the three visual forms in which the words can be “drawn”: Subject 0 (black and flat), Subject 1 (white and flat), and Subject 2 (white and volumetric).

The diptych ‘Residences [0.3.0]’ is based on the story ‘Residences’ I wrote in 2019, now re-written in Loop Script. The English version is available on my website. I indicate the Loop Script version [0.3.0] in the title of the piece to instruct the viewer how to read it when the project grows.