Poetic Amnesia is my venture into a figment of Vietnamese history, one that deals with the history of our chu quoc ngu (Vietnam’s romanized script ), and both the fantasies and the hard facts entailed. Inspirations come from not only 17th century materials found in the Roman Jesuit Archive, and the decorative patterns donning the streets of contemporary Saigon during Lunar New Year Celebration, but also my own imagination of a fabricated future somewhat reflective of the downtrodden reality of the Vietnamese countryside. Nonetheless, I formulate my voyage not within the bounds of the city but beyond geographical marks and chronological dividends. I position myself as a flâneur – to borrow Walter Benjamin's word – a kind of urban explorer. Upon entering the exhibition, they would journey through the sphere of the artwork, where boundaries between real time and fictional time, real space and fantastical space become distorted. Poetic Amnesia is an experimentation of mine in creating a half-real and half-fictitious visual experience, in which the viewer embodies the role of Từ Thức. History, the sinner - young ones, the judge I dream of one day, the verdict of humanity :
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