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Video still by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon (still); (Single-channel video installation, 4k, color, 5.1 surround sound, 58 min., 2022). The image illustrates the moving-image work by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a key medium from throughout his career. The image depicts the protagonist in one of his videos set in Vietnam, a woman who runs a small on the outskirts of Quang Tri one of the most heavily bombed areas in history, still haunted by a legacy of death and dismemberment, physical residue and the ongoing danger of unexploded ordnance (UXO). She transforms discarded war metals into musical instruments with healing properties. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Copyright held by the artist.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key body of work by Tuan Andrew Nguyen: his moving-image works, which tap into counter-memory, testimony and dialogue as forms of political resistance and empowerment. These works highlight unofficial and underrepresented histories involving the fragmented consciousness of colonial inheritance, expatriation and repatriation, often interweaving factual and speculative elements in order to rework dominant narratives into poetic vignettes that imagine alternate forms of healing, survival and political potentiality. Because the article is about an artist and his work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this fundamental body of work in his overall art, which brought Nguyen recognition through exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications and museum acquisitions. Nguyen's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.