Người Bạn Cho Một Đường Dài

Hùng Lê , artist

born 1999

Người Bạn Cho Một Đường Dài, 2025

Material/technique: hand-dyed cotton fabric; hand-dyed linen; indigo dye; embroidering; beading

Credit line: Courtesy of the artist

Accession number: EL2025.081

On display: Perkins Central Court

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My Mother's Tongue Ties Me Together

When Hùng Lê’s uncle passed away and was buried in America, he began to reconsider his relationship to the land and ideas of “home.” In Người Bạn Cho Một Đường Dài, Lê reconstructs a photograph of his uncle overlaid with dense interlocking patterns inspired by Vietnamese brown ceramic ware. Here, the past, present, and future of personal and collective histories become intertwined, suggesting a non-linear reading of time, where death isn’t an end, but rather a redirection. What constitutes a home when our loved ones are no longer there, and its boundaries are always in flux?