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Nguyễn Trinh Thi, a Hanoi-based filmmaker and artist, was honored with the prestigious Prince Claus 2024 Impact Award. In her work, which blurs the boundaries between film, video art, installation and performance, she explores themes such as memory, history, representation, power structures, colonialism, war and indigeneity.
Nguyễn uses a montage technique to bring together the various visual media she uses: from her own audio and video recordings to found footage, postcards, photographs, newsreels, Hollywood films and ethnographic footage.
During documenta 15, she staged a scene from Bùi Ngọc Tấn's autobiographical novel Tale Told in the Year 2000, which describes life in the internment camps of communist North Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, in the exhibition space Rondell.
The Prince Claus Impact Award is presented every two years to important personalities whose artistic work not only reflects current events, but also incorporates and addresses their own communities. What this year's award winners have in common is their particular commitment to addressing important political issues. The prize is considered one of the most prestigious awards in the field of art and culture and promotes free cultural expression in order to pave the way for a just, peaceful, sustainable and inclusive future.
