To Preserve, Destroy | Hồng-Ân Trương

Special Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency
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Working within the alcove of Elsewhere’s “The Fabric Castle” and the installation “Far Away,” Troung is creating a video and installation based on its deconstruction. Filming a careful archival analysis of “Far Away” as a historical event – going through its materials, considering the historical traces of the materials as well as the previous artists’ interpretation of the materials – the video will suggest the psychoanalytic notion of the death drive, one that always threatens to destroy the archive. “Far Away” will ultimately be dismantled and preserved in a large box, and the space will be transformed into yet another iteration of itself.

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Hồng-Ân Trương
Hồng-Ân Trương

Hồng-Ân Trương lives and works in North Carolina and New York. Her interdisciplinary projects examine structures of time, memory, and the production of knowledge by engaging with archival materials, individual and collective narratives, and histories that span cultural and national borders.Her work has been shown at the International Center for Photography, Art in General, Smack Mellon, and The Kitchen among others. In 2013 she was recipient of an Art Matters Grant, a Franconia Sculpture Park Jerome Fellowship, and a Socrates Sculpture Park EAF. She was an artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 2015. She was a studio art fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program and is an Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

She is currently working on To Preserve, Destroy.

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