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installation of nine C-prints, interactive video and sound installation · duration 1' · 5 editions + 2 AP
we set foot in Vị Xuyên martyrs’ cemetery, which had 1,768 (until July 2013) graves of the deceased from 1979 to the beginning of 1990, especially in 1984 and 1988. i recorded all the information about these 1,768 people, which were etched on their tombstones. from the information i collected, i used Google Maps to draw connecting paths from their hometowns to Vị Xuyên (where they sacrificed their lives and their remaining corpses were concentrated). i separated these paths from the maps, for all that’s left are the cold and meaningless lines. in other words, we can only see 1,768 winding strokes. is there anything left but 1,768 routes which all lead to death at the same place?” - Phùng Tiến Sơn