Đoàn Tụ - Mémoires Vietnamiennes

The third part of the project initiated by the Lune rougissante collective, Đoàn tụ. Mémoires vietnamiennes brings together several generations of artists from the Vietnamese diaspora in France. Their works question the traces of war and exile, as well as the memories of Vietnam that are transmitted and transformed across generations.

Artists: Alix Douart Sinnouretty, Kim Đoàn Quốc, Louise Lan, Lê Hoàng Nguyên, Flora Nguyễn, Thiên Ngọc Ngô-Rioufol, Matthias Pasquet, Régis Sénèque, Nicole Tran Ba Vang, Kianuë Tran Kiêu.

Curators: Eléonore Hải-Vân Trần, Camille Minh-Lan Gouin Public Programme: Jo Ngô, Clément Thanh Danh Lê How does one inherit a country known through fragmented stories, family silences, and images both familiar and distant?

The third part of the project initiated by the Lune rougissante collective, Đoàn tụ - Mémoires vietnamiennes brings together several generations of artists from the Vietnamese diaspora in France.

This community was formed through successive exiles following the Indochina War (1946-1954), then the American War in Vietnam (1955-1975), from the repatriates of CAFI and Eurasians of FOEFI to boat people refugees and more recent migrations.

Upon their arrival, families were housed in isolated locations or dispersed across French territory. Despite these policies of invisibilisation, Vietnamese presences took root through pagodas, restaurants, shops, and community spaces.

Drawing on memories, investigations, and sometimes dreamed genealogies, the artists explore a Vietnamese identity received as heritage, shaped by war, exile, and transmission.

Their works probe the ruptures in collective narratives and establish connections between Vietnam, its diasporas, and generations born in France. Meaning “reunion” in Vietnamese, Đoàn tụ here refers to the possibility of recognising oneself among relatives still unknown.

For its first programme entirely dedicated to the diasporic community, Galerie Bao broadens the contours of Vietnam to include those who carry its memory from a distance.

Between lived experiences, ancestral histories, and reinvented filiations, the exhibition composes a collective, multiple, and continually transformed narrative.