Melissa Nguyen presents a new, print-based painting in the West Space Window. Water Street by Night explores Vietnam’s relationship with replication and mechanical reproduction through methods of appropriation.

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With source imagery from the Vietnamese Cabaret Show, Paris by Night, the work uses bootleg aesthetics as a filter to consider notions of Orientalism and Western perceptions, diasporic cultural experiences, and personal nostalgia.

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Read the accompanying exhibition text "Today I am alive, and without nostalgia the night flows" by Annabel Brown here.