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Creative Minds: Dinh Q. Lê and Opening Reception

A still image of a distant group of people wearing different types of hats and carrying bags. It is sectioned into three in a chronological order from left to right. Images of humans overlap with transparent effect. They are walking on shallow muddy water.

Dinh Q. Lê; Video stills, The Imaginary Country, 2006; Four-channel video installation with sound; Dimensions variable;
Running time: 16 minutes, 4 seconds; © Dinh Q. Lê; Courtesy of the artist and Shoshana Wayne Gallery.

S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director,
invites you to celebrate the opening reception of
Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey Is Return.

Creative Minds: Dinh Q. Lê

7 – 8 PM
$12 ($6 for members) — SOLD OUT!
The artist will be in conversation with author Andrew Lam. Seating is limited and advance reservations are strongly recommended.

Tickets to the lecture are SOLD OUT!

Opening Reception

8 – 9 PM
Free to members and Creative Minds ticket holders.

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City of San José Supported, in part by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San José. Henry Luce Foundation NEA
Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey Is Return is made possible in part by grant support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council, and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

The exhibition is sponsored by The Lipman Family Foundation, the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, Lucia Cha and Dr. Jerrold Hiura, and Evelyn and Rick Neely. Additional support comes from Lisa and Keith Lubliner. In-kind support for equipment is provided by Genelec and NEC Display Solutions.
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Dinh Q. Lê: True Journey Is Return

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The largest solo exhibition in the United States in more than a decade of the work of internationally-renowned artist Dinh Q. Lê, this exhibition of five major video and photography installations entwines rarely heard narratives of war and migration from people in North Vietnam, the Vietnamese diaspora, and refugees who, like Lê, have returned to live in their home country. Assembling these obscure stories through the collection of found photographs, artists’ war sketches, and oral histories, Lê presents a multifaceted story about Vietnamese life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. In the process, he questions the viability of collective memory and reveals the effects of trauma on the cultural imagination.