Set of carved wooden stamps with Vietnamese and English lettering in a custom typeface for custom printed newspaper
Artwork Details
Medium
Wood stamp set with custom typeface newspaper
Acquisition
Accession
2017.12-14
Source or Donor
Ngô, Hương
Acquisition Method
Purchase
Credit Line
Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Art Acquisition Endowment Fund, Courtesy of the artist
Made/Created
Artist
Ngô, Hương
Date made
2017
Ethnography
Notes
American
American, b. Hong Kong
Lexicon
Legacy Lexicon
Class
MIXED MEDIA
Dimensions
Dimension Notes
Variable
Interpretative Labels
Label Type
Object Label
Label
Proposals for a Translation, 2017
Wooden stamp set with custom typeface, newspapers
Courtesy of the artist
The class-based struggle of the Communist movement overshadowed the Vietnamese women’s rights movement of the early 20th century, leaving an incomplete framework and awkward translation of the term feminism. Ngô reached out to a group of artists and activists who identify as Vietnamese or part of the Vietnamese diaspora for possible translations for the term feminism into Vietnamese. Using their replies, she created this set of stamps, carved with the proposed translations. The stamps were used to create the accompanying publication, printed with narratives and explanations from the participants about their particular translation of feminism. This solicitation for a translation acts not only as a proposal for a literal translation, but also a proposal for the very process of translation itself.
