QUYEN NGUYEN-LE
  • Selected Works
  • Upcoming Screenings
  • FILMS
    • A Song in Movement
    • In Living Memory
    • The Morning Passing on El Cajon Blvd
    • Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)
    • Nước (Water/Homeland)
    • Queer Viet Doc
    • The Labyrinth
  • Installation
  • About
  • Selected Works
  • Upcoming Screenings
  • FILMS
    • A Song in Movement
    • In Living Memory
    • The Morning Passing on El Cajon Blvd
    • Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)
    • Nước (Water/Homeland)
    • Queer Viet Doc
    • The Labyrinth
  • Installation
  • About
In Living Memory of Nước (Water/Homeland)
single channel video, interactive sculpture
​English and Vietnamese subtitles


In Living Memory of Nước (Water/Homeland) invites viewers into a space fragmented across memory and imagination. Based on Quyên Nguyen-Le's short films, this installation centers the refugee nail salon as a site connecting different but continuous histories.
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Photo: Schirin Moaiyeri
March 24 - April 30, 2024
Berlin, Germany
Produced by Oyoun*
가닥 GADAG
Fäden der Erinnerungen / Threads of Memories
https://oyoun.de/en/unsere-arbeit/gadag/
*Oyoun is an arts & culture venue that has been committed to fostering queer*feminist and diasporic cultural diversity, promoting artistic freedom, and providing a platform for marginalized voices in Berlin's cultural landscape. Now, due to the current political climate in Germany - namely, Germany’s systemic erasure of the ongoing genocide committed against the Palestinian people - the fate of Oyoun has been placed in uncertainty. Read More. Save Oyoun.
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Waiting Room Zine Table

Dear Customers, in place of the usual beauty and gossip magazines, this salon provides you with reading materials that center the lives of vietnamese diasporic queer & trans people and women. Many of these have been pivotal in my own formation of identity. Each of these zines have entire worlds within them and I invite you to delve in as you wait.

Not White Not Straight Not Male by rosi

They Call Us Viet Kieu by Minnie Phan

tương/mình zine by Nghiem Nguyen & Sarah Tran

Phantom Roots by Erica Nguyen

Suspended in Time #2: Thai Tai, designed by Hua Hsu in collaboration with Elizabeth Ai

Vănguard #3 by various authors

Về Ăn Khuya newspaper zine by various authors, curated by QTViet Cafe
Contributors: Ray, minh, phibi, Ái Liên Lê, Tofu Riot, cát nguyên, Sam Joseph, Kelly Tô, Que Tran Whitney, Jeannie (Mỹ Hạnh) Phạm, hải võ, Jean Phạm (they/them), Julia Nguyen, Linh Hoang, sảxì, aL huynh phuong, Mơ, Lan Ngô, and Jessie

​Year of the Tiger by various authors, curated by Xen Nhà
Contributors: Y-Bình Nguyễn, Mei Leong, Christina Nguyen, Leanne Su, Alger Ji-Liang 梁家傑 with Ciara Kosai, Arthur Blake Brown, anonymous, Judy Kuo, Jessie Crossman, Ren Jiang, Vic, sara (美珍) h. hammami, Isabel Lee and Rita Z.
This installation also features two custom nail sets by QTcles (Michelle Bounkousohn)

​PHOTOS SOON!

Previous GROUP EXHIBITIONS

February 8-9 2020
SEATTLE, WA
Seattle Asian Art Museum

May 5 ​2018
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center x Asian Arts Initiative
Center for Refugee Poetics

April 21-June 3 2018
SAN DIEGO, CA
San Diego Art Institute
ABOUT-FACE

Dec 1-4 2016
MONTREAL, CANADA

Atelier Celadon, Studio XX
common aliens: diaspora in time
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  • Selected Works
  • Upcoming Screenings
  • FILMS
    • A Song in Movement
    • In Living Memory
    • The Morning Passing on El Cajon Blvd
    • Hoài (Ongoing, Memory)
    • Nước (Water/Homeland)
    • Queer Viet Doc
    • The Labyrinth
  • Installation
  • About