Ancestral Altar # 14
Title
Ancestral Altar # 14
Subject
Virginia
Art
Description
Born in Vietnam in 1977, two years after the fall of Saigon, Danh and his family left their home in 1979 and immigrated to the United States in the early 1980s. The experience of displacement and his eventual trip back to his country of birth inspired the artist to create work exploring his homeland's history using found and natural materials. By inventing a process known as chlorophyll painting, Danh found the perfect metaphor to honor the thousands of people murdered by the Khmer Rouge regime. Printed on a variety of tropical plants, Danh's portraits of the victims are permanently imprinted into the matrix of the leave's structure.
Creator
Binh Danh (Vietnamese, Born 1977)
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Format
image/jpeg
Type
Image
Identifier
TAU_ART_000139
2006.039
Date Created
2005
Is Part Of
Taubman Museum of Art
Medium
prints (visual works)
chlorophyll print and resin
Provenance
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries
Taubman Museum of Art (Repository)
Purchase with funds from the Cherry Hill Endowment
Files
Collection
Citation
Binh Danh (Vietnamese, Born 1977), “Ancestral Altar # 14,” Southwest Virginia Digital Archive, accessed April 18, 2024, https://di.lib.vt.edu/items/show/963.