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Thao Nguyen Phan Reincarnations of Shadows

Pirelli HangarBicocca

Thao Nguyen Phan’s works are at once beautiful and devastating, their harrowing stories poetically revealed like emotional gut punches. And one is struck by the extent of the tragedy and the burning shame at knowing almost none of it. Phan asks us to consider why it is that certain events in history are glorified while others are hardly

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