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Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, the past is the prologue
Exhibition March 15 − September 2, 2019
Smithsonian Museum of American Art invites to the exhibition "Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, the past is the prologue".
The artist Tiffany Chung (b. 1969, Tan Nong, Vietnam) is known for her multimedia work, which explores issues of migration, conflict and geographical change as a result of political and natural shocks.
The exhibition explores the legacy of the Vietnam War and its aftermath with maps, videos and paintings that highlight the voices and histories of former Vietnamese refugees. Through this work, Chung documents the reports that were largely excluded from the official history of the period, and begins to tell an alternative history of ideology and the consequences of war.
The central element of the exhibition is a new series of video interviews with former Vietnamese refugees who live in Houston, Southern California and Northern Virginia, which were ordered by the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Using carefully drawn and stitched maps, emotional interviews and intensive archival research, Chung explores the experience of refugees who were part of large-scale immigration during the exodus from Vietnam after 1975. She begins with a detailed study of the history of one man - her father, who fought for the South Vietnamese military during the war, expands to cover the stories of former refugees from Vietnam, and goes further to show the world the consequences of their collective migration after the war.
According to the official siteSmithsonian Museum of American Art.
The artist Tiffany Chung (b. 1969, Tan Nong, Vietnam) is known for her multimedia work, which explores issues of migration, conflict and geographical change as a result of political and natural shocks.
The exhibition explores the legacy of the Vietnam War and its aftermath with maps, videos and paintings that highlight the voices and histories of former Vietnamese refugees. Through this work, Chung documents the reports that were largely excluded from the official history of the period, and begins to tell an alternative history of ideology and the consequences of war.
The central element of the exhibition is a new series of video interviews with former Vietnamese refugees who live in Houston, Southern California and Northern Virginia, which were ordered by the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
Using carefully drawn and stitched maps, emotional interviews and intensive archival research, Chung explores the experience of refugees who were part of large-scale immigration during the exodus from Vietnam after 1975. She begins with a detailed study of the history of one man - her father, who fought for the South Vietnamese military during the war, expands to cover the stories of former refugees from Vietnam, and goes further to show the world the consequences of their collective migration after the war.
According to the official siteSmithsonian Museum of American Art.
