Revolution, Restaged and Translated: Diane Severin Nguyen

Diane Severin Nguyen’s nineteen-minute video If Revolution Is a Sickness (2021) seems paced to the push and pull of tides, the rhythm of the waves. The centerpiece of her first institutional solo show—which begins at SculptureCenter in Queens, New York, before traveling to the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago—the film was shot in Poland while the Vietnamese American artist was supported by a residency there. It opens with a shot of a sunless shoreline amid a des