Lena BUI (born in 1985, Da Nang) makes works responding to nature and people’s relationship with their surroundings. Using primarily painting and video, she reflects on the ways in which tradition, faith, death, and dreams influence our behavior and perception, weaving together stories of human resilience and worldviews that are not entirely human-centric. “dream(machine, human)” can be interpreted as a machine dreaming of a human, a machine and a human dreaming together, a machine trying to understand or predict human actions, or any other variation of the three words. The story takes place in an ambiguous time, unfolding as machine-salvaged fragments of human memories or a mythology of human demise and metamorphosis.