Ha Tri Hieu’s poetic style of expressionistic paintings often feature stylised figures with salient features and opened mouths. Executed using earthy colours reminiscent of the soil, his works are deeply influenced by his childhood years spent in the countryside. Illustrated here is a group of figures performing a choral act of silent harmonies.   Ha Tri Hieu graduated from the Vietnam University of Fine Art in 1983, where he studied pottery and lacquer. He is a member of the ‘Gang of Five’ alongside contemporary artists Hong Viet Dung, Dang Xuan Hoa, Tran Luong and Pham Quang Vinh. The collective of Hanoi painters rose to prominence in the early 1990s in Vietnam. In 2018, curator Le Thuan Uyen presented an exhibition titled Gang Of Five Chancing Modern held at the Factory Contemporary Arts Centre (Ho Chi Minh City) in collaboration with Art Vietnam (Hanoi). His works are in the museum collections of Singapore Art Museum, National Museum of Malaysia, Vietnam Fine Art Museum Hanoi, and in extensive private collections in Vietnam and abroad.