Trần Lương
Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain
Jameel Arts Centre
Dubai

In Vietnamese, tầm tã is an idiom for heavy rain. For Trần Lương’s first international survey at the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, the title “Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain” evoked the torrential downpours of his country’s wet season while suggesting an overwhelming feeling or experience—perhaps alluding to the war-scarred childhood that shaped the Hanoi-born artist-activist’s philosophy and practice.