Artist explores family, Vietnamese culture, food in immersive installation
Posted on AllSides April 19th, 2024
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Throughout her career, Tulsa artist Dan Lynh Pham has explored ideas about family, identity, history and belonging, as the child of Vietnamese immigrants. But until this year, she had not been able to bring all these ideas, and the various artistic media she uses in creating her work, together into a single, immersive experience. On March 1, Pham presented “I Bear the Fruit of My Ancestors,” an installation work inspired by Dam Gio , the Vietnamese tradition of the death anniversary, an annual commemoration of family members on the day...