Bui Cong Khanh (Danang, b. 1972) is a Hoian-based Vietnamese artist whose visually and conceptually-sophisticated practice ponders social issues in Vietnam today. Khanh uses local Vietnamese materials such as ceramics, textile, and carved timber as covert clues to critical significance. His work is in major public collections in Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States.

The pair of floor vases (After The War (1, 2) ) shaped like missiles, aesthetically weighty with their midnight blue and gold, and adorned with barbed wire motifs and dart-boards, signal war directly, unconcerned by one side or another. In his picturing of disposable, utilitarian, and interchangeable clothing to signify factional opposition, Khanh can be seen as querying the War’s ongoing dividing effect.