In These Eyes Lies an Endless Ocean

Quang Hai Nguyen

Part of this involves remembering, extending memories forward, and augmenting the present so as to create spaces for future memories that are not sullied by the lens of trauma, but instead illuminated by exchange. The resulting photographs are ultimately a collaboration, and thus relate back to the original ethos of the project – one of creating a kind of gathering and togetherness.

Nguyen uses photography as an intentional act of countering narratives of trauma. The artist has created a contemplative body of work that presents its subjects with opportunities to enter spaces in which they may ask questions, express ambivalence, and ultimately embrace communion.