Phuong M. Do: The Puzzle of Photography, or What Fits and What Does Not
about 28 months ago (12/24/2021)
Phuong M. Do: The Puzzle of Photography, or What Fits and What Does Not | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Phượng M. Đỗ December 24, 2021 By Đồng Hà Nhuận (Ha Nhuan Dong) (3,330 words, 12-minute read) This article is published as part of the inaugural AE x Goethe-Institut Critical Writing Micro-Residency 2021/2022 . Last year, I embarked on a two-month research that sought to sketch a possible genealogy of “Vietnamese contemporary art” that foregrounds female art practitioners. Spanning two print issues of a magazine, roughly twenty-one pages, the final essay celebrates more than twenty figures of diverse practices, who were, and are, prominent to the local art scene.