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Published on May 31, 2006
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Binh Danh
An untitled piece from Binh Danh's series of Vietnam-era portraits transferred onto leaves via photosynthesis.
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Disrupted: A Photographic Installation About Memory, History & WarBoth Danh and Moy are engaged in revivifying the past, but Moy's art brings the legacy of the Vietnam War into the present (drawing a pointed, though indirect comparison with the current war in Iraq), while Danh's art commemorates the past even as it comments on its evanescence. Despite its flaws, the exhibit makes us question our preconceived notions of history and the act of remembering. On the one hand, memory is something precious and decaying, to be pressed in a book and saved. On the other, it's the imperfect, highly subjective process by which the past lives on in the present.
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