H. Lan Thao Lam

H. Lan Thao Lam is an interdisciplinary artist/writer who has lived in Vietnam, Malaysia, Canada and the US. Lam’s current body of work involves investigative inquiries and analysis, language, installation, and object making. Her projects destabilize the notion of master narratives by questioning the construction of the past, its meaning and its historical legacies.

Recently relocated to New York, Lam was the Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Art Department at Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has been exhibited and distributed in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Vietnam and the US.

Unidentified Vietnam: Questioning the Archives

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We’d like to begin with a quote from Siegried Kracauer’s 1927 essay on photography: “memory-images appear to be fragments but only because photography does not encompass the meaning to which they refer and in relation to which they cease to be fragments. Similarly, from the perspective of memory, photography appears as a jumble that consists … Read more