Archive & Post-archive (2025)
🌏 Vincom Centre for Contemporary Art, as part of Photo Hanoi Biennale
🧑🧑🧒 Curated by Đỗ Tường Linh and Éline Gourgues
The exhibition explores the concepts of archive and post-archive through the lens of the Vietnamese diaspora, while drawing connections with Vietnamese and Caribbean artists who share similar concerns. It examines experiences of migration and the cultural perspectives that emerge from displacement, reflecting broader global issues surrounding identity and memory.
Centered on photography, the exhibition also incorporates video, installation, and other mediums to explore how these forms capture narratives shaped by exile, transmission, and transformation. The artists move beyond documentation, uncovering fragments of lived experience, mythology, and counter-narratives that complicate our understanding of contemporary society. The featured works blend official archives with intimate recollections, revealing how artists rewrite or deconstruct historical narratives through imagery. By emphasizing migration and adaptation, they question how diasporic identities are formed—often through geographical and cultural ruptures.
Archive and post-archive challenges entrenched representations of otherness through its juxtaposition of Vietnamese and Caribbean diasporic perspectives, prompting reflection on individual and collective stories shaped by migration, cultural memory, and evolving identities.
Artists: Lê Nguyên Phương, Dinh Q Le, Quang Lâm, Sol Kim, Laila Hida, Emeline Ametis, Sylvie Bonnot, Manon Ficuciello, Adeline Rapon, Claire Zaniolo, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Nathyfa Michel, Flora Nguyen, Prune Phi.
Note: On the last day of the exhibition, my father and I put up a volleyball net across the initial installation, intended as a public performance. This ‘performance’ was not permitted by the city’s Ministry of Culture. However, we did it anyway with the assistance of the exhibition producer, in the presence of close friends.
🧑🧑🧒 Curated by Đỗ Tường Linh and Éline Gourgues
The exhibition explores the concepts of archive and post-archive through the lens of the Vietnamese diaspora, while drawing connections with Vietnamese and Caribbean artists who share similar concerns. It examines experiences of migration and the cultural perspectives that emerge from displacement, reflecting broader global issues surrounding identity and memory.
Centered on photography, the exhibition also incorporates video, installation, and other mediums to explore how these forms capture narratives shaped by exile, transmission, and transformation. The artists move beyond documentation, uncovering fragments of lived experience, mythology, and counter-narratives that complicate our understanding of contemporary society. The featured works blend official archives with intimate recollections, revealing how artists rewrite or deconstruct historical narratives through imagery. By emphasizing migration and adaptation, they question how diasporic identities are formed—often through geographical and cultural ruptures.
Archive and post-archive challenges entrenched representations of otherness through its juxtaposition of Vietnamese and Caribbean diasporic perspectives, prompting reflection on individual and collective stories shaped by migration, cultural memory, and evolving identities.
Artists: Lê Nguyên Phương, Dinh Q Le, Quang Lâm, Sol Kim, Laila Hida, Emeline Ametis, Sylvie Bonnot, Manon Ficuciello, Adeline Rapon, Claire Zaniolo, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Nathyfa Michel, Flora Nguyen, Prune Phi.
Note: On the last day of the exhibition, my father and I put up a volleyball net across the initial installation, intended as a public performance. This ‘performance’ was not permitted by the city’s Ministry of Culture. However, we did it anyway with the assistance of the exhibition producer, in the presence of close friends.