NADA Miami 2023

Botany is Ancestry is a sprawling floor installation composed of concrete, copper, wood, ceramic, and paint.
The formal arrangement is loosely based on the layout of Dang’s childhood bedroom in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Fragments from architectural blueprints drawn from memory are traced in patinated copper and spray-painted cinderblocks - a ubiquitous building material commonly used to construct homes, schools, prisons, industrial warehouses, and housing projects. The material alludes to themes characteristic of Dang’s overall practice, such as
territory, economic hierarchy, ecological degradation, and disenfranchisement, explored through the hazy web of personal memory. Through this process, Dang seeks to “span the difference between historical events and present-day consequences.”