🧲 Nguyen’s Pho Bo Noodle Soup Can Magnets

An Intimate Archive for the Everyday

This open-edition magnet is more than a decorative object — it is a distilled artifact of diasporic memory, culinary heritage, and artistic legacy. Drawing conceptual inspiration from Andy Warhol’s iconic soup can series, Nguyen recontextualizes the familiar vessel of pho as a site of both personal and collective resonance. Originating as an acrylic painting exhibited internationally — from The Palo Alto Art Center to Visionary Vortex in Seoul — the image has been transformed into a tactile, domestic gesture.

Designed for the liminal space of the refrigerator — a site of nourishment, ritual, and family — this magnet invites reflection on what is preserved, displayed, and remembered in our daily lives. Adorn your fridge beside handwritten recipes, market lists, and familial notes, and let this modest object speak volumes about migration, memory, and the everyday poetics of food.

Because even the most ordinary spaces deserve art.

Because food is a vessel of identity.

Because culture, like memory, adheres.

📍 Original Paintings SHOWN IN GALLERIES:
• What’s Cooking? – Palo Alto Art Center, CA
• Hungry, Thirsty – Gallery O-Rama, San Francisco, CA
• Have You Eaten? – Seattle AAPI Group Exhibition
• ART ON LOOP – The Holy Art Gallery, Seoul
• Visionary Vortex – Piuda Artspace, Seoul, South Korea

• Made from 0.5 mm flexible vinyl
• Premium matte finish
• Magnetic black backing

This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

Age restrictions: For adults
EU Warranty: 2 years
Other compliance information: Meets the flammability, lead, cadmium, mercury, phthalates, magnetic strength, and heavy metals level requirements.

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