Hong-An Truong MFA interviewed in Artforum about her recent work
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Hương Ngô and Hồng-Ân Trương, The Opposite of Looking is Not Invisibility. The Opposite of Yellow is Not Gold, 2016, mixed media. Installation view, SPACES, Cleveland, 2018. Photo: Jerry Mann.
Hương Ngô and Hồng-Ân Trương’s (MFA) work The Opposite of Looking is Not Invisibility. The Opposite of Yellow is Not Gold, 2016, pairs vernacular photographs of the artists’ mothers with texts from 1970s-era US congressional hearings regarding Vietnamese refugees. It is featured in “Being: New Photography 2018,” which will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from March 18 to August 19, 2018. Here, the artists discuss the political and personal impetuses behind their approach and how race, gender, and labor are often made invisible in cultural narratives.
Excerpts from an interview with Huong Ngo and Hong-An Truong
