Work from the Collection

5th Century (After Wolfgang Tillmans)

Artist: Sung Tieu
Date of creation: 2014
Domain: Photographie
Materials: Glossy photo paper
Collection: Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition: 2015
Sung Tieu, 5th Century (After Wolfgang Tillmans), Photographie, 2014, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © DR
Sung Tieu’s trompe-l'oeil photographs use contemporary avatars of luxury as their lures. Here, a perfume called 5th Century resembles the iconic Chanel fragrance, but everything in this shot is fake. The counterfeit perfume and the style, not the artist’s own, are responses to the homogeneity of taste. The style is inappropriate, but not neutral, for Sung Tieu borrows from Wolfgang Tillmans’s preferred themes—photographs of raw values such as the gold bars of the Gold series or gleaming car bodies make up a sociolect (a variety of a language specific to a social group) that one would like to articulate. In this vein, Sung Tieu has produced several photographs that question the relationship between display and regimes of truth: through their ubiquitous presence in public space and on the widest variety of media, do advertising objects appear as good, fair, and true?

À propos de l'artiste

Sung Tieu

Born in 1987 in Hai Duong, Vietnam

Les œuvres de Sung Tieu témoignent de la place importante qu’elle accorde au thème de l’hégémonie et des représentations culturelles. Par ses photographies, sculptures et installations, elle interroge notre façon de réagir aux images et montre que ces réactions, dictées par nos référents culturels, sont le résultat d’expériences vécues ou de faits passivement intégrés.

Née en 1987 au Vietnam, Sung Tieu a grandi en Allemagne, où elle vit et travaille aujourd’hui.