Artist statement: Drunken swine is a work that combines photographic and ceramic installation to unpack the relationship that the South Vietnamese community has with their colonial history. The work takes reference points from 19th- and early 20th-century ethnographic photography to examine the history of orientalist tropes that informed the French colonial image-making process and combines it with an exploration of displaced French culture exampled by the popularity of cognac within the global Vietnamese diaspora.
Drunken swine utilises vernacular cultures, literature, language, and history to critique colonial layovers and the ongoing elitism that is still attached to the way in which French occupation is perceived within the Vietnamese diaspora. Through this work SLIPPAGE aims to offer a point of difference to our communities, nudging our individual and collective identities towards a de-colonial framework.
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