Artist field note

Bùi Xuân Phái

A city survives through repeated acts of looking.

Appears inVietnam

01 / 05

Hanoi Old Quarters

1960s-1980s

Narrow facades and empty streets turn the changing city into a structure of memory.

The five in one idea

Bùi Xuân Phái made Hanoi's streets a collective portrait of persistence, loss and belonging.