Thuy & T.

"Wearing a traditional Vietnamese dress or áo dài, my female protagonist boxes alone in front of a pitch black backdrop. She staggers her feet while swiftly punching forward, looking ahead with determination and a glint in her eyes. The piece took on a another meaning and urgency as it was created during a new wave of anti-Asian hate rippling across the United States in early 2020. The production for this video piece occurred right before and after the Atlanta shootings in March 2020, when a man targeted women of Asian descent killing eight people. The punches represent my frustration, anger, pain, and sadness towards the experiences of being immigrant, of being Asian and of being of Asian descent in the United States of American." (A.T.N.)