Today’s guest is Minh Nguyễn, curator at Dogma Collection in Ho Chi Minh City.

We discussed what Dogma Collection is, the socioeconomic context of socialist realism propaganda created from 1945 to the mid-1980s, the use of digitally rendered versions of this art for the upcoming reunification anniversary, the state of the contemporary art scene in HCMC and Vietnam more broadly, the exhibition ‘A Radial System’ and its presentation of war imagery from different viewpoints, and more.

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Reframing War Memories via the Western-Vietnamese Photographic Perspectives (Saigoneer)

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