Memorial Park, Nguyen, Minh Vegan Year of Publication 2021

Year of Publication 2021

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Gary Zhexi Zhang was also invited to finally complement the book with a contribution in the form of an essay that attempts to clarify some of his understandings of the artist’s work and what it all means in present times

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Memorial Park, Nguyen, Minh Vegan Year of Publication 2021Fifty years after the Fall of Saigon and twenty years after her familys emigration to America, Minh Nguyen returns to her native Vietnam to find out whats left of the old revolutionary project. In Memorial Park, a collection of essays pairing travelogue and criticism, Nguyen encounters relics of proletarian romance and vestiges of authoritarian control amid an evermore corporatized society. Along the way, she considers how contemporary artspeak