» Đó Là Thế Giới Của Đàn Ông

Đó Là Thế Giới Của Đàn Ông forms part of the installation đô-mi-nô, in which An-My Le further explores the psychic aftermath of war. Inspired by her mother’s wartime pantry, these shelves are stocked not with provisions but with jumbo-size replicas of the Zippo lighters that American GIs brought to Vietnam, some wrapped in handwoven cozies and others inscribed with phrases reminiscent of those on the soldiers’ originals. The work’s title alludes to domino theory, the Cold War conjecture that a country falling to Communist forces would result in the fall of others around it.

(Text courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery)