Seventeen artists, including Vietnamese living in America, France and Germany, will showcase 24 works at the exhibition entitled Ceci N’est Pas Une Guerre – This is Not A War.
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the end of the Resistance War against America, the exhibition seeks to challenge the long-standing tendency to confine Vietnamese contemporary art within narrow narratives of war, trauma and survival.
The exhibition prompts a reconsideration of how Vietnamese visual culture is presented within a global context. While artists have engaged deeply with the past fifty years of history after the war, their works have often been interpreted through the lens of the aftermath.
Ca Lê Thắng’s compositionally poetic painting serves as a quiet footnote to the natural and spiritual landscapes of southern Việt Nam, expressing a deep emotional connection to his homeland’s nature and history.
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