Works
Works
PLATTENLOTUS (2022)
Part of her ongoing project Eugenics of the Cold Flowers, combining the East German Plattenbau housing model with the lotus as a symbol of Vietnamese nationalism. Referencing the transfer of prefabricated socialist housing to Vietnam, the work imagines an urban utopia shaped by collective living, political ideology, and national identity.
the_parents_mixtape (2021)
Drawn from personal history, the video traces critical moments in the lives of the artist's parents that shaped her upbringing. Using Google Maps as a guide to the past, the video challenges the digitalized geographical assimilation and the heterogeneity of the human memory.
Artist
Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran is an art laborer based in Saigon whose practice spans artmaking, curating, and writing. Using animation, 3D design, archives, and architecture, she combines political discourse with science-fiction aesthetics to reimagine Third World histories and futures. She co-founded the Art Labor collective in 2012.