Name/Title
Archival DocumentEntry/Object ID
2017.14bDescription
3 images of girl over various government documentsContext
The passport, photographs, and documents from the National Overseas Archives in Aix-enProvence, France, reproduced here depict Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai, one of the most notable women in Vietnamese revolutionary history and the central figure of the exhibition. After years of working with Vietnamese Communist leader Hồ Chí Minh in Hong Kong, she returned to Vietnam to oppose the French government and lead the anti-colonial movement. The French National police captured her in 1940 and executed her by firing squad along with other anti-colonists. While schools, streets, and hotels in Vietnam bear her name, the historical record of Minh Khai is thin and stitched together from bits of information salvaged from French police reports and interrogation documents. Hương Ngô’s research of Minh Khai serves not to close the gaps in the historical record, but to explore the absences and find new ways to tell the impossible stories of gender, colonialism, and violence contained in them.Acquisition
Accession
2017.12-14Source or Donor
Ngô, HươngAcquisition Method
PurchaseCredit Line
Courtesy of the artistEthnography
Notes
Vietnam
France
North AmericanLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, PhotographicNomenclature Primary Object Term
PhotographNomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsGetty AAT
Concept
government (political concept), political concepts, social science concepts, security, safety-related concepts, functional concepts (general)Hierarchy Name
Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)Facet
Associated Concepts FacetLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Government, Archives, Colonialism, RevolutionariesDimensions
Height
10 inWidth
13-5/8 in