LIEN TRUONG

SEEPING OF A GHOST

November 7 – November 12, 2016

In these paintings, I work within a hybrid genre of history painting, interpreting narrative moments that have shaped our collective history. Embracing Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopias as sites that mirror, distort, and invert other spaces, my painted gestures bear the uniform of regional textile designs; referring to a worldwide textile trade that for centuries has been a complicated narrative of migration, hierarchy and power. The nonverbal aesthetics of textiles transcends language barriers, yielding notable capacity to be culturally absorbed.