THU-VAN TRAN: NO LONGER DAY, NOT YET NIGHT

ALMINE RECH Shanghai is pleased to present No Longer Day, Not Yet Night, Thu-Van Tran's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.

May 29 - August 27, 2026

This project has been officially included in the 2026 edition of the Croisements Festival. Special thanks go to the Consulate General of France in Shanghai and the Institut Français de Chine for their generous support.

During the United States-Vietnam War (1955–75), the US military developed and deployed a series of chemical weapons in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, known collectively as the Rainbow Herbicides. Agent Orange was the most notorious, but its siblings—Agents Green, Pink, Purple, Blue, and White—were equally destructive. 90% of these chemicals were used for defoliation, primarily to remove the forest cover under which Viet Cong guerilla soldiers were moving, and 10% were used for crop destruction to disrupt food supplies.1 These herbicides’ effects on the environment, foodways and health are enduring.

In her long-running series Colors of Grey (2012–present), from which the works in 'No Longer Day, Not Yet Night' are drawn, artist Thu-Van Tran recasts this history. Tran first discovered the name of the operation, Operation Ranch Hand (1962-71), under which these herbicides were sprayed in the US Army’s archives at the National Library of Congress. Cloaked in euphemism, the codenames of war with their apparent innocence, even lyricism, belied their horrific consequences.

— Sheau Yun Lim, curator and writer