Bùi Thanh Tâm: Here on and after presents thirteen new and recent paintings that engage the "after" of Vietnam's colonial history — the afterlife of war, the persistence of memory, and the continual reshaping of cultural identity. Traditional Vietnamese folk woodblock prints are layered, collaged, and recolored into new visual forms, while the sunflower emerges as the central emblem — an eye marked by rupture, a symbol of resilience shadowed by cultural fragmentation and the intergenerational trauma of Agent Orange. Across four series, Tâm transplants inherited form into ever-changing conditions, drawing on Anselm Kiefer and Francis Bacon as living sources alongside Vietnamese woodblock tradition.
