A video exhibition which explores the power of unhappy memories will open at Goethe Institute Hanoi on September 10.
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| The exhibition focuses on the ‘black box’ of the human soul |
The show is a first for young artist Truong Que Chi, with her exhibition focusing on the ‘black box’ of the human soul.
The exhibition features an audio-visual installation of memories that would rather be forgotten sourced from anonymous people.
A dark space represents a combination of a temple and a Catholic confessional. The room, draped by dark nylon with a black-curtained entrance, attempts to draw on Catholic concepts of making a confession.
Two rows of televisions are arranged in the middle of the room, broadcasting monologues in Vietnamese by people from different classes, including war veterans, students and artists who talk about unhappy memories that they would rather forget.
The contributor’s voices have been changed so visitors can’t exactly hear what they are saying.
Truong Que Chi was born in 1987 in Hanoi. She graduated from Lyon 2 University’s cinema faculty. She found fame with her poetry collection Toi dang lon (I’m growing) when she was just 18 years old.
The exhibition opens on September 10 and will last until September 13 with free entrance at the Goethe Institute, 56-58 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.
