“When it comes, we know it is coming
When it goes, we know it is going
Don’t rewind the past, don’t fantasize the future
Only this moment is present.”
Doan Van Toi -

Bringing viewers back to reality, "Gate Gate" introduces more than 40 silk paintings, which are the contemplations and speculations of painter Doan Van Toi about the holiness of human being and the relationship between man and nature in the quietest state. Observing the image of people taking a bath, when they take off their clothes and burdens to immerse themselves in the flowing Red River, he realizes that each entity inherently has a whole inner holiness. From the images of these individuals, from the arrangement of silk on the floral fabric, from the balanced composition of the circus group, the artist's practice is a new approach for him to express the dialogue of perception: see things as they are, look no further when all is in its inherent nature.