The Mistake Room exhibition “Where the Sea Remembers” features work from a new generation of Vietnamese artists whose work isn't dominated by war and trauma.
And with the rise of the internet, artists were able to access new media, be exposed to an international vocabulary and start making drastically different art, Taylor said.Viet Kieu, or overseas Vietnamese,
Although artists still work under a communist regime, Vietnam’s art scene is expanding with independent initiatives including nonprofit art center Sàn Art, artist collective the“Where the Sea Remembers” artist Phan Thảo Nguyễn, whose series of watercolor drawings reframe a Westerner’s account of Vietnam, said via email the “raw state” of Vietnam’s art scene — “no institution support, no collector, no art market, no official art history” — is both challenging and exciting.
During the years of war, “There was no way these artists were being shown in America because the name would be considered an enemy of the United States,” Taylor said. And those perceptions lingered long after the war.a Santa Ana exhibition organized by a Vietnamese artist group, closed after protests from the Vietnamese American community across Southern California.
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