Exhibition: No Place Like Home

Located in the heart of the Vietnamese community on Kingsland Road, Museum of the Home commissioned a new contemporary art exhibition, No Place Like Home (A Vietnamese Exhibition) Part II. Co-curated and led by KV Duong and Hoa Dung Clerget, the collaborative exhibition features a group of Vietnamese diasporic artists presenting works about the theme of home through the Vietnamese cultural lens.

Immigrant family meals are important moments of connection and cultural transmission. Traditional foods are deeply intertwined with notions of memory, identity, and belonging - both in the places where the parents have settled and on a transnational scale as a reminder of Vietnam.

Visitors are greeted by a striking urban landscape installation constructed from Vietnamese plastic stools, highlighting the psychogeography of migrant populations. The main room showcases object-based works on a low white table, inviting viewers to sit on bamboo carpets to engage with the works.

The fluid, curvilinear table shape intentionally breaks from the traditional administrative and patriarchal table, fostering dynamic interaction with the objects and each other. The table facilitates the transmission of knowledge, experiences, and self-gifts, for artistic voices of marginalised second-gen immigrants.