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This publication accompanies the exhibition Hương Ngô: To Name It is to See It, on view April 27- August 6, 2017 at DePaul Art Museum. In a new body of work that includes photographs, textiles, prints, neon, video, sound, and objects, Hương Ngô engages with the French government’s surveillance archives of Vietnamese anticolonial organizer Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai (1910-1941). The role of performance in the construction of identity is at the forefront of Ngô’s investigation of this historical figure. Minh Khai’s constant crossing of borders – those of nation-states, ethnicities, languages, genders, and classes – via her numerous pseudonyms and disguises, was key to her invisibility to authorities yet renders her difficult to classify even today.

ISBN

0-9850960-5-5

Publication Date

Spring 2017

Publisher

DePaul Art Museum

City

Chicago

Keywords

Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, Huong Ngo, Art, Vietnam

Disciplines

Art and Design

Hương Ngô: To Name It is to See It

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