In a green island, far from all men’s knowing (from the poem Sleep and Poetry, John Keats, 1817) 5 channel video installation, ambient sound, 20 minutes, looped – the intersection of privately contracted migrant construction workers asleep in a French colonial-era botanic garden adjacent to the state building site they worked on, Hanoi Installation view
Eclipse, 2016 Short film collaboration with artist/performer/director Viet Le View Film
euro2aura, 2015; Oil painting, photocopy, pencil drawing, artist book, 17 minute film Reflecting on Walter Benjamin’s theory of art and mechanical reproduction, the work explores the potential of imbuing a mass-produced object, in this case a 20-euro note, with the aura of a work of art. The resulting images, reproduced in Hanoi from a scanned […]
Sorry, Can You Wait One Minute? 2013, Video installation with photographs The photographer makes portraits. The photographer leaves the subjects alone with the camera for a minute. The photographer returns. What changes in the absence of the photographer? View film