From July 5 2025 to January 11 2026

HO TZU NYEN — JOUR SPECTRAL ET CONTES ÉTRANGES

LUMA Arles, Parc des Ateliers

Ho Tzu Nyen is widely considered one of the most innovative artists to emerge internationally in the past 20 years. His work invokes and unravels a vast range of subjects, from precolonial and colonial myths to modernist narratives and geopolitics, to cinematic representations of a hybridized and unstable present. Ho creates complex and compelling video installations that probe reality, history, and fiction rooted in the culture of Southeast Asia. Phantom Day and Stranger Tales features five immersive multimedia installations spanning two decades, alongside a new commission, Phantoms of Endless Day that draws from an unfinished film—now resequenced, re-constructed, and narrated through Artificial Intelligence processes —to raise the spectre of the last days of the Second World War in his homeland, with Japanese and British soldiers and Communist Guerrilas trapped in the jungle with mystical creatures, including a Shamanesque weretiger. The new commission transforms the various historical research he had undertaken into a dream-like fairy-tale, the centerpiece through which to experience Ho’s distinctive set of visual and aural narratives, and his historical imagination. 

General information

LUMA Arles
Parc des Ateliers
35 avenue Victor Hugo
13200 Arles

https://www.luma.org/fr/arles.html

CONTACT

Julie Camdessus
julie.camdessus@finnpartners.com