Nhu Xuan Hua, The White dress, The Roses and the Black Window - Archive from the year'72[detail], 2017-2022. Courtesy of the artist and Anne-Laure Buffard, France. Copyright © Nhu Xuan Hua.

In the series Tropism: Consequences of a Displaced Memory, Nhu Xuan Hua draws on her family’s photographic archive. The images document their early years in Belgium and France after migrating from Vietnam. Through digital manipulation, she creates images that hover between recognition and erasure. The works reflect on how a community’s past can reverberate into the future.

Taking inspiration from Hua’s body of work, researchers Georgina Quach and Benjamin Tran will lead a workshop exploring the important role archives play in preserving community history during migration and cultural rupture. Quach writes about her family’s experience as refugees and the legacy of British resettlement camps whilst Tran documents the contemporary Vietnamese diaspora in London.

Attendees can expect to take part in reflective and practical exercises , drawing inspiration from the Nhu Xuan Hua’s exhibition at Autograph; Of Walking on Fire  and the researchers’ respective practices.

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