Visual Artist
Gestures of Return
Gestures of Return brings together new photographic and video works by the artist in her first solo exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thurgau.
The works reflect on memory, ancestry, grief, and the layered act of returning — not only to places, but also to gestures, rituals, and feelings. Created over several years in Vietnam, Laos, Switzerland, and the spaces in between, the photographs and moving images capture fleeting moments of encounters, ceremonies, and atmospheres.
The large-scale prints and the video installation Fruits to Offer unfold as fragments of light, smoke, and texture, circling around what is passed on and what slips away. Rather than fixed documents, they appear as gestures in motion — fragile, cyclical, and deeply tied to diasporic experience. The exhibition draws attention to the subtle forms of belonging that surface in memories, inheritances, and the stories we begin to shape ourselves.