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Danh Vo : take my breath away
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ISBN: 9780892075393 0892075392 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Guggenheim Museum Publications

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Danh Vo's conceptual, installation-based practice dissects the cultural forces and private desires that shape our experience of the world. He often employs found objects, images and texts to animate personal narratives that refract global political histories. Published to accompany the most comprehensive museum survey to date of the Danish artist's work, this catalog presents for the first time an illuminating overview of Vo's work from the past 15 years. Organized around nearly 30 major projects and installations, the volume ranges from Vo's early performative works such as Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2003), in which he married and divorced acquaintances in order to add their surnames to his own, to his recent sculptural hybrids of classical and Christian statuary. A lead essay by Katherine Brinson probes the artist's roving, research-based process in which historical study, fortuitous encounters and personal relationships are woven into psychologically potent tableaux. Significant recurring subjects include the legacy of colonialism and the fraught status of the refugee, as well as the image of the United States in its own collective imagination and in that of the world.


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Danh Vo : wād al-ḥaŷara
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ISBN: 9786078335145 6078335146 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ecatepec, Estado de México Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo

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This catalogue is a reference to the first time Vo came to Mexico, when he travelled with a long-time friend, a retired US military analyst who had lived in Vietnam. This relationship allowed Danh Vo to make a mediated approach to explore his country of birth and to appropriate thereby a series of historical moments and everyday situations that he had not experienced firsthand. But 'Wad al-hayara' is not just a personal reference, but also signifies a new chapter in Vo's work in that it examines the history of colonialism and its close ties to the dissemination of cultures and the assimilation of religions, going back in this case to the first Arab conquest of Spain and its later transposition to the "New World". It also refers to how the rise and fall of empires have a powerful impact on the social body and determine the cultural economies that make up our everyday lives.

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