exhibitions
Dinh Q. Lê
Artist
- Dinh Q. Lê
Special Events
Friday, 1 February, 2008
Lecture by Dinh Q. Lê
Reception for the Artists
About the Exhibition
DINH Q. LÊ: AFTER THE WAR will feature ten large-scale photo-weavings completed by the artist in 2006 and 2007, as well as a four-channel video installation created in 2006. The photo-weavings examine the quickening pace of change in Vietnam, as the country negotiates between developing a free-market society and maintaining a socialist ideology. In these works, corporate logos and commercial packaging from a variety of Western products, now ubiquitous in Vietnam, infiltrate iconic documentary images from the Vietnam War. Lê's video installation The Imaginary Country, produced in collaboration with artists Tuan Andrew Nguyen and Ha Thuc Phu Nam, juxtaposes two generations affected by the Vietnamese Diaspora: the older generation of Lê's parents, which made the difficult decision to leave everything behind for the possibility of a better future in a foreign land, and the younger generation of the artist himself, which is returning to live in Vietnam.
DINH Q. LÊ: AFTER THE WAR is organized and curated by Tina Yapelli, director of the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University. The exhibition is sponsored by the San Diego State University Art Council; the School of Art, Design and Art History; the College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts; and the fund for Instructionally Related Activities. In-kind support is provided by City Wok, San Diego, and Saigon on Fifth, San Diego. Dinh Q. Lê is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica. He lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.