Hồng-Ân Trương: With love from your Vietnamese sisters

In With love from your Vietnamese sisters, Hồng-Ân Trương expands upon a body of work that engages deeply with archival materials, examining structures of time, memory, and the production and circulation of narrative histories. Her presentation in the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery responds to an object held at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library: a scrapbook created and gifted to Angela Davis in 1972 by the Vietnam Committee for Solidarity with the American People. Trương uses this album—which contains Vietnamese articles following Davis’s prosecution and trial in the early 1970s, preserved and presented with hand-lettered annotations and messages of support and admiration—as an entry point to consider the unrealized potential of international solidarities and the ethics of memory. Photographed pages from the album are printed as carbon transfer photographs on mirror and suggest the nearness of history as well as the proliferation of knowledge through acts of remembering. Shown alongside other photographic work and a new, three-part single channel film, Trương’s engagement with materials drawn from both archival and personal collections reflects on the intimate ties and political threads that bind us across generations.

Hồng-Ân Trương: With love from your Vietnamese sisters is organized by Caitlin Julia Rubin, a visiting curator at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.