In various fields such as mathematics, programming and system building, ‘recursion’

could be understood as when a system refers to itself. This ‘recursive’ nature has

always been a prominent feature of My Land, a fictional world that takes selfreferentiality

as one of its core values: “This territory does not correspond to any

known culture in human history. It has its own systems of logic, language, and

metrology that are functional only within themselves” (from Hà Ninh’s artist’s

statement for My Land). Hà Ninh Pham’s solo exhibition, “Recursive Fables”, sheds

light on the invention of a new language called ‘Loop Script’ that Hà Ninh has been

working on since early 2022. ‘Loop Script’ is a language that was born out of My Land

and is capable of self-documenting its own history. Through an array of works

spanning drawings, sculptures, and video games, Hà Ninh also ponders over the

constructedness of language and its capacity to reveal differing realities.