The Silent Nights

Seven photographic lightboxes built from the artist's mother's stories of evacuation from Hanoi to Thái Nguyên in the 1960s.

The Silent Nights is a series of 7 photograph lightboxes inspired by stories of the artist's mother. It is about people's life in the '60s, after evacuating from Hanoi to Thái Nguyên province when the US bombed the North of Vietnam.

Those stories depict the way people integrated nature, and how they transformed and absorbed it for survival needs: the story of an individual as well as the story of a collective. Ngọc Nâu's work constantly jumps from past to present.