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Un-forgetting History
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Jul 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
After having to destroy her family pictures during the Cultural Revolution in China, artist Hung Liu treasures old photographs all the more. In fact, they’re foundational to her work. She has described her portraits like a memorial site for people forgotten to history-- comfort women, farm workers, refugees.
As the Gallery launches a retrospective of her artwork, we trace Hung's life through some of the images she's collected and created, from her rendering of a resident alien card in which she renames herself 'Fortune Cookie,' to her painting commemorating the violent Tiananmen Square crackdown.
See the images we discuss:
https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/Un-forgetting%20History
As the Gallery launches a retrospective of her artwork, we trace Hung's life through some of the images she's collected and created, from her rendering of a resident alien card in which she renames herself 'Fortune Cookie,' to her painting commemorating the violent Tiananmen Square crackdown.
See the images we discuss:
https://npg.si.edu/podcasts/Un-forgetting%20History
Released:
Jul 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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