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Hop Dac

Sông mơ

Boom Gallery
Thursday 18 JuneSaturday 11 July

"I had a dream when I was about four or five of flying over paddy fields and I remembered the dream all through my childhood, but it wasn’t until I was back in Vietnam, about to turn 21, that I knew what the dream was. My mother and I were visiting my father’s family in Can Tho, in the Mekong Delta where I had lived the first few years of my life, where his father had been a rice farmer.

I have travelled a long way with the water, from the Mekong to the Dinh, the Swan to the Chapman, Greenough, Yarra and now Barwon. My earliest memory is from when I was two or three, walking along the riverbank, cool clay underfoot, and seeing a group of shouting men with an enormous turtle they had pulled from the river, restraining its limbs and neck with black cord, and another man, his back to me, clutching a machete.

I know my father is scared witless of the water monsters that lurk at river mouths.

The images in Sông mơ (Dream River) are like the murmur of flowing water, carrying glimpses of dreams, memories and stories that surface and submerge and surface again until they are almost indistinguishable. And I don’t always know if the memory I have was a story I heard long ago."

Location

Boom Gallery
41 Pakington Street, Geelong West VIC 3218, Australia

Date

Thursday 18 JuneSaturday 11 July

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Hop Dac

Sông mơ

Boom Gallery
Thursday 18 JuneSaturday 11 July

"I had a dream when I was about four or five of flying over paddy fields and I remembered the dream all through my childhood, but it wasn’t until I was back in Vietnam, about to turn 21, that I knew what the dream was. My mother and I were visiting my father’s family in Can Tho, in the Mekong Delta where I had lived the first few years of my life, where his father had been a rice farmer.

I have travelled a long way with the water, from the Mekong to the Dinh, the Swan to the Chapman, Greenough, Yarra and now Barwon. My earliest memory is from when I was two or three, walking along the riverbank, cool clay underfoot, and seeing a group of shouting men with an enormous turtle they had pulled from the river, restraining its limbs and neck with black cord, and another man, his back to me, clutching a machete.

I know my father is scared witless of the water monsters that lurk at river mouths.

The images in Sông mơ (Dream River) are like the murmur of flowing water, carrying glimpses of dreams, memories and stories that surface and submerge and surface again until they are almost indistinguishable. And I don’t always know if the memory I have was a story I heard long ago."

Location

Boom Gallery
41 Pakington Street, Geelong West VIC 3218, Australia

Date

Thursday 18 JuneSaturday 11 July

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