Kiều-Anh Nguyễn

Interdisciplinary Artist, i work with visual and scent and often think about alternative archive to decentralize narratives.

My manager will continue to update after his floating

🐣 Hà Nội, Việt NamMay - June 2025: Atelier 11, Paris(you can acquire any of my artwork or service to donate for Palestine & displaced people. send me an email!)



ba-bau AIR


fine fragrance, bisque fired Bát Tràng ceramics pieces of tea pots and tea cups 
Southeast Asian Art Forum, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore (August 2023)


an attempt to archive and recreate in an olfactory form the (es)sense of ba-bau AIR over the years of operation and in different actions.

presented firstly at Southeast Asian Art Forum, NAFA, Singapore for presentation “on the (non)physicality of space” by ba-bau AIR


dining room 1: vague scent of passing time, first impression of coming to an old room with people taking care of the space
time: early spring 2020

spring’s high humidity air, sticky water leaks, untouched bookshelf with old yellow pages from previous owners, kitchen, dashi stock & dried seasoning, wet table top, tight damp walls, dust cleaning, dried-then-burn pomelo peels, concrete sweat

dining room 2: when ba-bau is less people, everyone is hanging around somewhere else & the space get to breathe
time: June - September 2022

offering white flowers, Hanoian incenses, freshness of sunlight, monsoon soil, crumpled vines, quilted lilies, leftover citrus peels from Queer Lexicon 2’s premiere pomelo sweet soup


phòngbímật: floating around where we archive, store and hoard things:
storage, spiderwebs, under the stairs & footsteps, rusty metal, aged wood, falling damp walls, electronic cords, dry concrete, spring rain

after balcony: late night post-event gathering at 2nd floor balcony
time: spring - autumn 
nights neighbors’ thiết mộc lan (dracaena fragrans) & osmanthus, age-old rusty balcony, energy drinks, ashtrays, filtered cigarettes, pipe tobacco water, packed human sweat in air-con’d room, machine heat

soft air: first fresh sniff before entering the alley
evaporated water, dried spring dew, green buds, northeast breeze, quilted plants, old paper books, carious wood door & resin