This space features Enduring Interventions, an installation by Vietnamese artist Le Phi Long, known for his poetic and surreal explorations of memory, place, colonial residues, and ecological crisis.

Le Phi Long contends that the wounds of the Vietnam War have not ended—they continue, silently, in bodies, landscapes, and systems. This work is an artistic response to that enduring trauma.

The installation draws from the artist’s research at the Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, a former herbicide storage facility in Dong Nai Province, and actual specimens of children affected by Agent Orange.

The images in the work depict hybrid forms of humans and animals—creatures that do not exist in reality, yet feel eerily familiar. Using traditional Vietnamese Dò paper and ink, Le constructs dense, shadowy scenes that evoke a sense of slow-burning catastrophe.

The visuals resemble explosions, erosions, or whirlpools—compositions in which humans and nature seem entangled in fragile, unstable harmony. These are not simply historical depictions, but metaphors for the ongoing imbalance and suffering embedded in our ecological present.

One of the most striking aspects of the work is the inclusion of actual soil contaminated by Agent Orange. This is not a symbolic gesture. The soil is both a material residue of war and an unfiltered presence of lived reality.

Standing before it, the viewer experiences a sudden collapse in distance between themselves and the war. The past, no longer sealed in archive or image, becomes tactile—palpable in the senses.

Enduring Interventions insists that war is not a closed event but a continuous force. That memory is not a static archive, but a living system—sustained through shared sensation, emotional resonance, and ethical awareness.

Here, viewers are invited to reconnect with the forgotten stories embedded in soil, paper, and breath. In that quiet act of connection lies the work’s deepest offering—a space to feel, remember, and carry the weight of the unresolved.