Mask by Nguyen Ngu Y produced in mid 1990s in his characteristic primitive style. It was featured in the exhibition 'Nothing in Common', 18-27 January 1997.

Nguyen Nhu Y is a trained sculptor who graduated from the Fine Arts University in 1995. According to Natalia (Natasha) Kraevskaia in the article 'Naïve and Outsider Art in Vietnam', Nguyen would carve directly on stone or wood without making sketches beforehand. His practice concerned more about the process of making than the materials he worked with. She also suggested that a 'great numbers of his wooden sculptures appear to be inspired by the tomb figures of the ethnic tribes from the Tay Nguyen Plato in central Vietnam, but at the same time they reflect his own spontaneous expression and individual sensitivity'. Such combination of figural representations with imagined monstrous features was common in outsider art.

‘Nothing in Common’ differed from the previous exhibitions Salon Natasha organised, in the sense that it was neither thematic nor conceptually-driven; instead it put together three artists which was considered having ‘nothing in common’. Tran's paintings were characterised by the figural representations of male and female, attempting to reflect personal histories and sentiments and to embrace the concepts of unity and solitude; Mai's works addressed and experimented with Buddhist concepts; often rendered in a spontaneous manner, Nguyen's sculptures expressed a sense of primitivism.