{"product_id":"pcg-024-in-dialogue-with-sung-tieu","title":"PCG-024 IN DIALOGUE WITH SUNG TIEU","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relative basis-auto flex-col -mb-(--composer-overlap-px) [--composer-overlap-px:28px] grow flex\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex flex-col text-sm pb-25\"\u003e\n\u003carticle data-turn=\"assistant\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-62\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:aa24e1bd-6e27-4a9e-ade6-10fd40d36c69-321\" dir=\"auto\" class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-id=\"b528674a-385b-4bbf-83da-81b1abd45701\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"72\" data-start=\"31\" data-section-id=\"nfon95\"\u003eValue: Silent Resistance \/ Stil verzet\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"87\" data-start=\"74\" data-section-id=\"bccpex\"\u003eTHE OBJECT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"437\" data-start=\"89\"\u003eThis ring has the presence of a small architectural fragment. It does not feel decorative in the traditional sense; it feels built, marked and carried. The blue surface rises like a façade, a window, a screen or a piece of institutional architecture. Its vertical lines suggest cracks, divisions, registrations or traces left by pressure over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"786\" data-start=\"439\"\u003eThe material contrast is important. The intense blue of the lapis lazuli appears strong and almost monumental, yet the stone itself is relatively vulnerable. With a hardness of 5.5 on the Mohs scale, lapis lazuli can be scratched by harder materials. This tension between visual strength and material vulnerability gives the ring its inner charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1095\" data-start=\"788\"\u003eThe silver-grey structure around the blue plane creates the feeling of a protective but damaged frame. It holds the stone, but it also looks worn, weathered and exposed. The small gold element does not dominate the object; it appears like a repair, a wound, or a brief signal of value within a harder field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1227\" data-start=\"1097\"\u003eThe ring is not open or soft. It is compact, vertical and resistant. It seems to hold something back. Its power lies in restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-end=\"1232\" data-start=\"1229\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"1248\" data-start=\"1234\" data-section-id=\"weinav\"\u003eTHE VALUE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"1270\" data-start=\"1249\" data-section-id=\"1dr7o30\"\u003eSilent Resistance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1330\" data-start=\"1272\"\u003eThis ring is connected to the value \u003cstrong data-end=\"1329\" data-start=\"1308\"\u003eSilent Resistance\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1552\" data-start=\"1332\"\u003eSilent Resistance is not loud protest. It is the refusal to disappear. It is the persistence of what remains present under pressure: a trace, a body, a memory, a structure, a history that was not meant to become central.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1843\" data-start=\"1554\"\u003eIn this ring, resistance is carried by the surface. The blue plane is not smooth and untouched; it is marked by dark lines and divisions. The object suggests that pressure has passed through it, but has not erased it. Its strength is not based on invulnerability. It is based on endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2127\" data-start=\"1845\"\u003eThe lapis lazuli is crucial to this reading. It appears deep, hard and commanding, but it is not unbreakable. It can be scratched. It can carry damage. This makes the value more precise: Silent Resistance is not about being untouched. It is about remaining present even when marked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2315\" data-start=\"2129\"\u003eFor the wearer, this value becomes tangible. The ring does not simply decorate the hand; it carries a lesson about persistence. It reminds us that quiet endurance can be a form of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-end=\"2320\" data-start=\"2317\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-end=\"2351\" data-start=\"2322\" data-section-id=\"1hkypoa\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/anneliesnuy.com\/blogs\/news\/sung-tieu-silent-resistance\"\u003eIN DIALOGUE WITH SUNG TIEU (blog)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2501\" data-start=\"2353\"\u003eThis ring stands in dialogue with \u003cstrong data-end=\"2400\" data-start=\"2387\"\u003eSung Tieu\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose work examines migration, bureaucracy, architecture, labour and the quiet violence of systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2944\" data-start=\"2503\"\u003eFor the German Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, Tieu envelops the pavilion’s neoclassical façade in a trompe-l’oeil mosaic referring to the ruins of a socialist-era prefabricated apartment block on Gehrenseestraße in Berlin. This building was her childhood home and a housing complex for Vietnamese contract workers in East Germany, later inhabited by other migrant communities after reunification. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3515\" data-start=\"2946\"\u003eThis is where the dialogue with the ring becomes clear. Tieu does not approach resistance as spectacle. She works through architecture, surface, memory and systems of exclusion. By placing the image of a migrant housing block over the German Pavilion, she brings a marginalised history onto a national architectural symbol. The German Pavilion project \u003cstrong data-end=\"3306\" data-start=\"3298\"\u003eRUIN\u003c\/strong\u003e is described as a space where physical and social structures, German ideologies and lived biographies overlap, bringing architecture, history and psychology into tension. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"3806\" data-start=\"3517\"\u003eThe ring echoes that gesture on an intimate scale. Its blue plane becomes a kind of façade. Its lines become cracks, registrations or traces of pressure. Its reflective surface suggests that what we see is never only one layer. There is an official surface, and beneath it another history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4139\" data-start=\"3808\"\u003eTieu’s work makes visible how historical ruptures continue to resonate in the present, especially through architecture and social structures. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e This ring carries that same logic in miniature: a hard, marked surface that does not explain everything, but refuses to become silent in the wrong way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4308\" data-start=\"4141\"\u003eIt is not an illustration of Tieu’s work. It is a wearable translation of the value her work makes visible: the power of what remains, even when pushed to the margins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-end=\"4313\" data-start=\"4310\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"4336\" data-start=\"4315\" data-section-id=\"1e6tp8s\"\u003eWITHIN THE PROJECT\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4441\" data-start=\"4338\"\u003eWithin the wider project, this ring functions as a small interface between art, value and public space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"4764\" data-start=\"4443\"\u003eThe aim is not to copy the visual language of the artist, but to translate what the artist makes visible into a value that can be carried. In this case, Sung Tieu’s work opens the value of \u003cstrong data-end=\"4653\" data-start=\"4632\"\u003eSilent Resistance\u003c\/strong\u003e: the persistence of histories, bodies and places that were ignored, displaced or absorbed into larger systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"5080\" data-start=\"4766\"\u003eAs a wearable object, the ring moves this value out of the museum and into daily life. It can be seen on the hand, in the street, in conversation, and through a QR code that gives access to the artistic and historical context behind it. The object becomes a physical point of entry into a wider field of knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"5210\" data-start=\"5082\"\u003eThe ring is therefore not only an object of display. It is a carrier. It makes a value visible without turning it into a slogan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-end=\"5215\" data-start=\"5212\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"5252\" data-start=\"5217\" data-section-id=\"rjurob\"\u003eRESONANCE WITH THE PRESENT WORLD\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"5459\" data-start=\"5254\"\u003eThis ring resonates with a world in which many forms of violence are no longer immediately visible. They appear through housing, borders, administration, labour systems, migration policy and public memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"5822\" data-start=\"5461\"\u003eSung Tieu’s work is urgent because it shows how histories can be hidden inside buildings, documents and national narratives. Her Biennale contribution brings the history of Vietnamese contract workers and migrant life in post-reunification Germany into direct confrontation with the architecture of national representation. \u003cspan data-state=\"closed\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"6104\" data-start=\"5824\"\u003eThe ring carries this resonance through its own image language. The blue stone appears monumental, but is vulnerable. The surface looks controlled, but is marked. The gold appears only as a small interruption, not as triumph. The object does not celebrate power; it holds tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"6317\" data-start=\"6106\"\u003eIn a time that often rewards loud visibility, this ring points to another form of strength: the strength of remaining present, of carrying marks, of refusing erasure without needing to perform resistance loudly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"6447\" data-start=\"6319\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"6340\" data-start=\"6319\"\u003eSilent Resistance\u003c\/strong\u003e, here, is not silence as absence.\u003cbr data-end=\"6377\" data-start=\"6374\"\u003eIt is silence as pressure.\u003cbr data-end=\"6406\" data-start=\"6403\"\u003eSilence as memory.\u003cbr data-end=\"6427\" data-start=\"6424\"\u003eSilence as survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mt-3 w-full empty:hidden\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"5399\" data-end=\"5402\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-start=\"5404\" data-end=\"5419\"\u003eUSE \u0026amp; CARE\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"5420\" data-end=\"5653\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5420\" data-end=\"5490\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5422\" data-end=\"5490\"\u003eAvoid prolonged contact with water, perfume, and chemical products\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5491\" data-end=\"5532\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5493\" data-end=\"5532\"\u003eStore separately to prevent scratches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5533\" data-end=\"5572\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5535\" data-end=\"5572\"\u003eClean gently with a soft, dry cloth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5573\" data-end=\"5653\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5575\" data-end=\"5653\"\u003eSurface wear may develop over time — this enhances the character of the work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5655\" data-end=\"5706\"\u003eThis ring is a sculptural object. Handle with care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"5708\" data-end=\"5711\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-start=\"5713\" data-end=\"5726\"\u003eSHIPPING\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"5727\" data-end=\"5975\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5727\" data-end=\"5769\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5729\" data-end=\"5769\"\u003eCarefully packaged in a protective box\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5770\" data-end=\"5808\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5772\" data-end=\"5808\"\u003eIncludes certificate of uniqueness\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5809\" data-end=\"5829\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5811\" data-end=\"5829\"\u003eInsured shipping\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5830\" data-end=\"5880\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5832\" data-end=\"5880\"\u003eDelivery time: 3–7 business days (if in stock)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5881\" data-end=\"5917\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5883\" data-end=\"5917\"\u003eInternational shipping available\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"5918\" data-end=\"5975\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5920\" data-end=\"5975\"\u003eTracking information will be provided once dispatched\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"5977\" data-end=\"5980\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-start=\"5982\" data-end=\"6002\"\u003eTAGS \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6003\" data-end=\"6142\"\u003e#WearableSculpture #PostColonialGold #SculpturalRing #ArtAsObject #GoldReconsidered #RepairAsMeaning #MonumentalMiniature #MaterialAsMemory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Annelies Nuy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61876395966794,"sku":"PCG-024","price":1100.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0135\/7080\/1764\/files\/ChatGPT_Image_21_mei_2026_12_37_29.png?v=1779359940","url":"https:\/\/anneliesnuy.com\/products\/pcg-024-in-dialogue-with-sung-tieu","provider":"Annelies Nuy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}