LE QUANG HA's work has the ability to disturb, attract, repulse and absorb. He is an iconoclast who enjoys confronting the viewer of his paintings with an ugly paradox. Although a highly skilled draftsman and accomplished painter his images often delve to the lowest of baselines. He detests hypocrisy and therefore presents the human condition with all its flaws. However he also possesses the wit to produce an image with great humour and beauty, both absurd and profound. The grotesque image of a fat lady, naked apart from a pair of bright red fluorescent stiletto heels, awkwardly perching on a toilet seat was executed with the intention to offend. However the image contains a metaphor, it is undeniably the product of childlike toilet humour but also says much about the violation of Oriental modesty. It could be said that obesity is the result of recently acquired material wealth, a new phenomenon in a country that has endured dire poverty for decades. The image encapsulates a morality that is common to Le Quang Ha's work. He is fiercely patriotic however it is the playfulness with which he treats the brutal realities exposed in his work that has led his recent exhibitions to be censored and banned.