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Photo by ara contemporary on July 16, 2026. May be an image of towel rack, clothes hanger, poster, rack, magazine and text that says 'ARLETTE ARLETTEQUYNH-ANHTRẦ QUỲ QUỲNH-ANH TRẦN I Iwidltelly.. ill tell you wien enI en I e am home aracontemporary.id id 11.07-09.08.2026 11.07-'.
Photo by ara contemporary on July 16, 2026. May be art of newspaper, poster and text that says 'The Unrealized Utopia is an imaginative reinterpretation by Arlette Quỳnh-Anh - Trần that combines artificial intelligence (Al)-generated (AI)- imagery with visual references drawn from Bauhaus journals published between 1926 and 1931. The Unrealized Utopia TUU- TUU-Niemeyer(2023 Niemeyer (2023) ink, gouache, charcoal, silkscreen, tracing on republished Bauhaus Journal mounted on aluminum, 50,5 x 59,5 cm'.
Photo by ara contemporary on July 16, 2026. May be an image of text that says 'Although Bauhaus emerged in early twentieth- century Germany, its modernist ideals found renewed resonance in the United States during the 1950s before circulating more broadly in the 1960s, as newly independent nations sought to rebuild their societies.'.
Photo by ara contemporary on July 16, 2026. May be an illustration of poster and text that says 'In these postcolonial contexts, Bauhaus principles became one of several frameworks through which countries imagined alternative paths toward sovereignty and modernization beyond inherited Western models. Yet many of these aspirations remained unrealized, shaped and often constrained by the geopolitical pressures of the Cold War. differenticnizy 成 Vidklunda mutl fakTuren I crranten. sterl T The Unrealized Utopia TUU-Moholy-Nagy Nagy 2023, ink, gouache charcoal, silks silkscreen, een tracing paper on republished repub Bauhaus Journal mounted. on aluminum, 30> 70.5x 0.5 cm'.
Photo by ara contemporary on July 16, 2026. May be a graphic of newspaper, poster, magazine and text that says 'By bringing together historical archives, algorithmically generated imagery, and site-specific references, The Unrealized Utopia reflects on the entanglement of political ideologies, human agency, and non-human systems. vor jabreni The Unrealized Utopia |TUU-Moholy-Nagy 2023, ink, gouache, charcoal, silkscreen, silksc tracing paper on republished Bauhaus Journal mounted on aluminum, 30 x 70.5 0.5 cm'.
Photo by ara contemporary on July 16, 2026. May be a black-and-white image of poster and text that says '川 ーばぶ Thework The work extends Anh Trần's ongoing practice of combining political inquiry with sci-fi aesthetics to construct speculative histories that question both the promises and the limits of modernity. The Unrealized Utopia TUU-Das Kino 2023 ink, gouache, charcoal, silkscreen, tracing paper on republished Bauhaus Journal mounted on aluminum, 42 29.5 x 0.5 cm'.
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Posted On: July 16th 2026, 10:30 am
An in-depth look into ‘The Unrealized Utopia’ by Arlette Quỳnh-Anh Trần, recently awarded a Graham Foundation grant.

On view as part of ‘I will tell you when I am home’.

11 July – 9 August 2026
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