C-print, linen tape.

Description

Lê weaves together black-and-white photographs taken during the Vietnam War with richly colored stills from Hollywood films based on that war. He proposes that this collective memory consists of three parts; the media’s images, Hollywood fiction, and personal memory. By merging and layering reality and fiction, Lê references our collective memory and experiences of the Vietnam War, which become more ambiguous and deteriorate over time. 

Description from "Vietnam in Transition, 1976–Present" Exhibition Catalog, 2023, p.20.