The World · 08

Vietnam

Silk, lacquer, urban memory, war, diaspora and speculative futures trace a modern art history shaped by exchange as much as rupture.

01Bùi Xuân PháiA city survives through repeated acts of looking.02Danh VoPersonal fragments reveal the machinery of empire.03Dinh Q. LêImages of war are woven from memory and mass media.04Lê PhổExile, memory and cultivated beauty meet in an East-West pictorial language.05Nguyễn Gia TríLacquer becomes a modern field of depth, light and national imagination.06Nguyễn Phan ChánhEveryday rural life receives grave, lyrical attention.07Tiffany ChungMaps become witnesses to displacement and erased histories.08Tuấn Andrew NguyễnObjects remember violence and imagine repair.