Truong Tan, known as Vietnam’s “first openly gay artist,” has also been called an enfant terrible. No stranger to controversy, he has had his fair share of run-ins with Vietnam’s cultural censors, having made works addressing thorny issues such as male homosexuality and police corruption. It was with no small surprise, then, that I encountered this latest exhibition: a presentation of lacquer paintings portraying planets suspended in galaxies. Accompanying these twenty-four works were two large-scale fabric installations and a vitrine displaying the tools and materials used in his working process.