Fractured Lens: Memory, Archive, and Photography at an Intersection

Fractured Lens: Memory, Archive, and Photography at an Intersection Date & Time: Sat-Sun, 27 & 28th May @2:30PM-5PM Location: Sàn Art Millenium Masteri, Units B.16 & B.17 132 Ben Van Don, Ward 6, District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Language: English (tiếng Anh) As we enter a hyper-digitalized era, with the advancement of technologies in capturing, representing, and archiving memories and histories, one cannot help but feel overwhelmed at the retrospective prospects that this digital tsunami has to offer. Among human’s time-capsule devices, photography has long been hailed for...

Eleonore Tran

Eleonore Tran is a PhD candidate at Université Paris 8. She graduated in Art History at Panthéon Sorbonne University and in Literature at Paris Cité University. Her research combines artistic, sociological, and historical studies. Her thesis focuses on the different ways in which photography serves as a memory material within the Vietnamese diaspora. Through the analysis of works created by contemporary artists from Vietnam, she observes how photography operates as both a fragment for reconstructing the past and as a medium for establishing new narratives of self and community. She...