» Terra Rouge CEW Study No.8

The Terra Rouge: circles, traces of time, rebellious solitude series inspect the terra rouge plateau of Binh Long–Phuoc Long in three distinct periods, depicting Neolithic circular earthworks (CEW) dated between 2300–300 B.C.; an extensive network of rubber plantations established in 1897 by French colonialists; and abandoned airfields that Chung’s father frequented as a South Vietnamese helicopter pilot during wartime. Chung contends that revisiting Neolithic circular earthworks might lead us to imagine a different possibility – a hypothetical trajectory in which earthwork groups had never been incorporated into a new socioeconomic and political polity, but instead chosen to remain in what the artist calls “rebellious solitude”.

(Text courtesy Kiang Malingue)