Winnie truong biography

The Interior Monologue of A Feminist Naturalist; A Close Reading of “Synaptic Pruning”

She’s exhausted, bent out of shape, tethered by the mother trees.

In Winnie Truong’s “Synaptic Pruning,” a lithe, femme-presenting figure — her alabaster-esque nudity of a highly burnished reptilian scale — is trapped by ashy dead ends and sharp claws.

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Suspended above a mucusy membrane, she is tied up, ready to be pruned.  

Truong's labour-intensive drawings have evolved into a distinct signature over the past ten years. What were once delicately weaved coifs became hairy, self-described wimmin creatures emerging from cattails. Within Herbaria, her latest solo exhibition with Patel Brown, new works that include large-scale dioramas and a stop-motion animation focuses on the unfettered femmes of the natural world and their disembodiment entrapped in white tape (“Synaptic Pruning”) or a web of their own making (“Weaving, Watching, Waiting”).

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