Works Curated & Exhibited

RE/HOMING: WALK-INS WELCOME

Against the current criminalization of immigration, RE/HOMING: WALK-INS WELCOME takes up the lessons learned from the “end” of the American War in Vietnam fifty years ago to re-cast the gallery space as a site of unequivocal welcome for refugees and immigrants. 

The exhibit features the works of five feminist/queer Vietnamese artists living in the diaspora. Developed in close collaboration, each work tends to the uneven ways ancestral memories and critical knowledges disperse and sprout across homelands and the diasporas: silently embodied and spatialized in generational, gendered, and migrating bodies; laboring through waterways and urban dwellings; and under surveillance and nation-state imprisonment. Together, they contemplate the displaced labors of feminized worldbuilding and care that obscure, evade, and alter colonial constructions of livability.