Dinh q le biography france

Dinh Q. Lê  () uses photography as both a technology for image making and an apparatus for distributing ideological narratives, Lê, in recent works, expand the category of photography to reveal the failings of individual memory and collective perceptions.

Lê’s evocative photographic artworks combine interior and exterior pictures of Cambodian sites and pair the seemingly unresolvable, competing narratives of a country’s past and present.

Dinh q le dead

Interlaced vertical and horizontal strips of documentary photographs juxtapose grandiose ancient Angkor temples with sparse interior rooms of the Tuol Sleng Museum and other memorial locations marred by the violence inflicted by the Khmer Rouge regime ().

Warm, golden-hued pictorial tapestries belie the painful legacy of the empty torture rooms.

The weaving process of the artist’s photographic constructions physically intertwine narratives to reiterate the dichotomou