An-My Lê is a Brooklyn-based artist and professor who has been producing visually compelling and thought-provoking photographic work focusing on Vietnam for over two decades. Recognized as the Charles Franklin Kellogg and Grace E. Ramsey Kellogg Professor in the Arts at Bard College, An-My Lê is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship (2012), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2009), the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Award (2007), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2007), among many others. From her first book, Small Wars (Aperture, 2005), to her most recent publication, Between Two Rivers (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2023), An-My Lê’s trajectory as an artist has been one of discovery and rediscovery. As a Vietnamese American with a refugee background, An-My Lê’s oeuvres reflect a complex relationship between the practice of image-making and her country of origin—a country that, for all its pervasiveness...
Between Two Pasts: Review of An-My Lê’s Between Two Rivers / Giữa hai giòng sông / Entre deux rivières
Vinh Phu Pham is a literary scholar who specializes in Vietnamese Francophone and nineteenth-century Spanish peninsular and Philippine literature. His publications encompass Vietnamese literature and culture, translations, architecture, Spanish contemporary politics, and Vietnamese music. Formerly at Fulbright University Vietnam, he now serves as Assistant Professor in World Literature at Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Queens. Additionally, Vinh edits for the US-Vietnam Review and holds a Courtesy Research Associate position at the Global Studies Institute, University of Oregon.
November 5, 2023, through March 9, 2024, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Vinh Phu Pham; Between Two Pasts: Review of An-My Lê’s Between Two Rivers / Giữa hai giòng sông / Entre deux rivières. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1 November 2024; 19 (3-4): 153–163. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2024.19.3-4.153
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