Hình Dung Gốc Rễ
/ Imaging Rhizome
(2023)
🌏 3năm Studio, Hồ Chí Minh City & RABA, Tokyo
Imaging Rhizome is a showcase of 18 photographic publications made by Vietnamese artists.
This collection of 18 works at first glance talk about our roots: family, living environment, and identities, as the foundation for figuring out who we are and how our lives are. The makings of these publications have allowed practitioners to reconstruct the relationships between spheres of life. Imaging Rhizome orients towards a non-hierarchical, map-like system of thinking, similar to rhizomatic plant roots. The audience can enter at any point, and freely associate to navigate through the series/clusters of images. From there, we can start dialogues to explore the roots of our shared concerns.
These publications have had different lives: some have been self-published in limited editions, while others are dummy books in progress, or have been experiments. Studio 3Năm came to know these publications though the relations among the community of photographers in Vietnam, and we hope to continue learning and sharing about Vietnamese photobook making.
Documented by 3năm Studio & RABA.