An-My Lê
Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières
Museum of Modern Art, New York

An-My Lê’s latest retrospective traced the artist’s career from 1994 to the present, rendering global conflict with self-reflexive nuance and grace. “Between Two Rivers/Giữa hai giòng sông/Entre deux rivières,” ranged in subject matter from eerily bucolic images of war-ravaged Vietnam to Hollywood film sets and American war games—an expansive body of work, united by a desire to explore the effects of military conflict on our physical and psychic landscapes. With each successive project, Lê steps further away from the epicenter of historical trauma, the American war in Vietnam, which has long served as her creative inspiration.