Compilation of photographs taken during the preparation for the second opening of 'Hanoin Henki' at the gallery of the Artists' Association of Oulu.
Image 1: Arrival of shipment
Image 2: Shipment arrived at the time of a school visit to the exhibition. The students offered to help unpacking and setting up.
Image 3: Vu Dan Tan with other Vietnamese and Finnish artists, having a lunch break during the set-up.
Image 4: Vietnamese and Finnish artists having a lunch break during the set-up. On the left is Finnish artist Pekka Vijamaa.
Image 5: Finnish artist Jaakko Niemela and Helena Kaikkonen in the gallery
Image 6: Set-up of the exhibition
Image 7-8: Vietnamese and Finnish artists having a lunch break during the set-up.

Delayed shipment of the selected artworks from Vietnam prompted a second exhibition opening of 'Hanoin Henki'; the container was put on detention and underwent multiple searches amid soliciting an authorisation from the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture. News coverage on the incident had in turned stirred interest among the local community - 'Hanoin Henki' received up to 200 visitors per day throughout the exhibition period.

'Hanoin Henki' (or 'Spirit of Hanoi') was a visual art project conceptualised and proposed by Pauli Mustonen (Cultural Attaché of the Finnish Embassy of Finland, Vietnam), Maritta Nurmi (Finnish artist resided in Hanoi), and Eric Leroux (French artist and frequent collaborator with Salon Natasha), on the occasion of the Asian Art and Culture Festival in Finland. The curatorial team intended to present to the audience an ecology of the Vietnamese art scene, namely the interconnections between art creation, daily life, artist/public interaction and collaboration; as well as the co-existence and exchanges between traditions and modernity in various art forms. Salon Natasha — a multi-functional artist-run space — was hence chosen to be represented and reconstructed as an installation in the Festival.
The project was presented in two exhibitions held in Helsinki and Oulu respectively.