In Blue Memory, what do the people wading in water symbolize? Vietnamese water puppetry?
Baptism? TTV: Blue Memory is a work of memory, but there is not any link with the Vietnamese tradition. In this work you can distinguish two parts: Blue (which is visual) and Memory (which is intellectual). The whole Blue Memory makes an ambiguous situation in which the memory stays elusive. You cannot understand where it comes from, when it finishes, or whether it is sad, bad, or happy. The space is occupied by 60 sheets of painted transparent plastic featuring half-submerged figures wearing white-collar shirts and black ties, smiling and completely ignorant of their deformation and distortion in the water reflections. Water puppetry, a great distraction for foreign tourists, does not participate in my souvenir. GR: I understand the plastic sheets that you paint on are common around Vietnam. Is that why you paint on them? TTV: There is no link between Vietnam and the transparent plastic. When the painted plastic is hung in the air, there are two ways to see the image: its support may
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