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Through text, image and performance Nam Chau examines the haunting relics of memories falsely constructed, questions unasked, and answers still floating in the ether. She grew up in a small town in France, the country that her mother had moved to as a refugee from the Vietnam War, then moved to Berlin via Untermeitingen in Bavaria, and now works from her Mitte studio.<\/p>\n

Influenced by \u201cvideos of cats on the internet\u2026 pornography and old black and white photos\u201d, her work combines an unusual collision of subject matter and process that she works on prolifically, starting at 6.00am and only stopping, \u201cwhen I think that I don\u2019t see what I am doing anymore\u201d. In \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Camp\u201d, Nam Chau uses the internet to extract imagery from a time period her mother won’t discuss, forming her own imagined access to her heritage through photos of other people in the refugee camp to which she has never made a pilgrimage to; Chau herself holds no pictures of this place, banished as it is from memory.<\/p>\n

Blurred figures emerge from the brushstrokes, connecting the artist\u2019s hand engaged in the act of re-representation with a distant moment, manifesting from the fog of history. Nam Chau also maintains an interest in American movies of the Vietnam War (\u201cFull Metal Jacket\u201d and so on) where, she says, \u201cVietnamese women are either prostitutes or fighters\u201d, and intends to create a new series of these entitled, \u201cThat\u2019s Me\u201d.<\/p>\n

Intrigued by this past which is never discussed (her mother once said, \u201cwhy should I keep a memory of something I don\u2019t want to know\u201d), her paintings have a hazy quality, as if she is peering through the mist as she considers, \u201cCan I paint what I cannot imagine? Is the painting able to say something that I do not want to know? Are my hands able to paint what I can\u2019t remember?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Text von Susanna Davies-Crook<\/strong><\/p>\n

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