After she saw the mise en scène of Murakamis short stories « The elephant vanishes » in Paris, she went back to Avignon. A fireworks evening, at the palace, a man comes to speak to her...

Created by Wonderful District, Atelier Wonderful is a new place dedicated to contemporary creation in Ho Chi Minh city. It will open its doors every saturday for students, creators and art lovers who want to meet, share ideas and get information. The studio also provides WiFi connexion. Open every other day of the week on appointment.

Atelier Wonderful is neither a gallery nor an art center, it gathers different aspects in the compact space of a small artist studio:

• a small lounge, offering a display of documentation that can be consulted on place (art books, magazines, DVDs, digital data bank about artists)
• a workshop ,which will accomodate regular presentations of artists' works or cultural actors' talks.

Immense with an Animal Skin
Saturday, February 18th, from 10am to 6pm

For its opening, Atelier Wonderful has invited Delphine Trouche, a student in her 4th year at  l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges (France). She will show a work made during her internship period with Wonderful District in Vietnam.

Delphine Trouche
Ecole des beaux arts de Bourges
Wonderful district :Vietnam
Janvier – Fevrier 2005

There is an Asian legend...

« It is said that at the origin of times, elephants were provided with wings. Loading the sky whith their large grey masses, they would wander following the winds and ascendences, free from the earth tracks and/or traps. Their weight - their weight of flesh or maybe of some ancient guilt , could not allow them to go down back among ordinary beings. Brimming with purifying drops, loaded with the sky waters propitious to men's culures, they did get down and accepted to serve.

Since then, to the rhythm of the slow rocking of their haunches, to the tempo of their feet as light as their shadows, they have been trudging along the paths and the roads, of which they fear neither mud nor dust. For elephants indeed are clouds. » (Asian legend)

PROJECT: The Elephant of Ménilmontant
3 pieces, one in Saigon, one in Bourge (sculpture) and one in Paris (performance)
A presentation in late february at Atelier Wonderful in Saigon.
Bourges and Paris: Bourges, the other black half of the elephant, the head, gets out of the ground. Paris, a grey elephant is getting up Menilmontant street.