Thang Do is a queer Vietnam-born artist based in Naarm whose sculptures and performances explore the human obsession with spectacle as both escape and catalyst for hope. Do has navigated the complex realities of life as an international student turned migrant worker, negotiating identity, visibility, and belonging while chasing the “Australian Dream.” His practice draws from the feeling of youthful fantasy, that childhood impulse to imagine oneself on stage, master of the moment, winner in life. Working with domestic materials such as paper, gold leaf, and foil through acts of folding, scoring, and embellishing, he transforms symbols of fragility into gestures of resilience.