Helen Tran

Ancestral Devotion

Essay
2021
Exhibition Dissertation Support Paper

“One lives, one leaves things behind – a piece of paper, a final interview, a corpse and a corpus, traces and memories – and then one goes away, one disappears, one dies, and those who remain are left to inherit and to mourn. – Jacque Derrida”

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Helen Tran

Printmaking & Photography

“When it comes to mourning and grief of others, it has primarily affected me when there is an event of death. It then follows me by forlorn sorrow and silence, with traces of their memories that stay...” [More]