Trampoline is pleased to support Minh Lan Tran’s solo presentation, Spine. This support follows a series of artist encounters organised for Natalia Sielewicz, Chief curator at MSN, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, through Trampoline’s curators invitation programme.
In her new commission for the MSN staircase, Minh Lan Tran (b. 1997, Hong Kong) extends the language of abstract painting into architecture. The work unfolds vertically through the space, like a scroll released from above, taking form as a single 19-metre sheet of natural latex. Suspended within the stairwell, it functions as a translucent membrane—responsive to light, gravity, and movement—through which questions of materiality, energy, and transformation quietly circulate.
While the staircase implies ascent, Tran counters this upward logic with a gravitational pull. The work responds equally to descending and ascending bodies, to crossings and reversals. It may be read as emergence or return : rising from the ground and sinking back toward it. This dual motion is mirrored in the production process itself. Made in the museum’s basement and installed through an act of lifting, the work traces a trajectory from underground to overground, and finally toward the sky. Painting becomes a conversation with what lies beneath, positioning the artwork as a mediator between earth, body, and light.
