Danh Vo in Conversation with Hendrik Folkerts
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Wednesday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Danh Vo will be in Conversation with Hendrik Folkerts.
Vietnamese-born Danish artist Danh Vo draws upon his and others’ biographies and aspects of political history and social memory to dissect the forces that affect our lives in overt and unexamined ways. He analyzes the structures and processes that shape our identities, such as the American dream, capitalist culture, civic bureaucracy, colonial history, migration, and religion. Through his approach, the artist’s family history-which arcs from wartime Vietnam through displacement and immigration to Europe-is used as a readymade material, intertwining with the many other lives and deaths spanning centuries and continents evoked throughout his works.
This lecture is a part of SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program and is a free, non-ticketed event and open to the public. Doors will open at 5:45 p.m.
Image: Danh Vo, JULY, IV, MDCCLXXVI (installation view), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2011. We the People (detail), 2011-2016, copper, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel. Photo: Nils Klinger
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