Oxiea Villamonte
Nguyen Thanh Hue
Oxiea:
"Heritage is of great importance to me and my artistic practice. For my graduation work I reflected and investigated my own identity by looking into the past of my mother. Because how she raised me deeply influenced who I am.
"Heritage is of great importance to me and my artistic practice. For my graduation work I reflected and investigated my own identity by looking into the past of my mother. Because how she raised me deeply influenced who I am.
Now I am continuing to investigate my heritage by diving into the archive of both of my parents and future discovering my roots.
My Grandmother (my mother's mom) is from the Sioux native american indian tribe. Unfortunately she passed away shortly after I was born. I would have loved to know her better. Luckily my mother kept letters and photographs of her through which I feel I got to know her. I would have loved to ask my grandmother more about her childhood, her beliefs and rituals.
I love sharing traditions from heritages together with my friends. Learning about each other's roots and sharing traditions from different cultures. Cooking together is something that is very important as well as when during cooking you evoke memories and stories from the past.
What does Heritage mean to you? Are their important traditions that you have that were passed on through your family?"
My Grandmother (my mother's mom) is from the Sioux native american indian tribe. Unfortunately she passed away shortly after I was born. I would have loved to know her better. Luckily my mother kept letters and photographs of her through which I feel I got to know her. I would have loved to ask my grandmother more about her childhood, her beliefs and rituals.
I love sharing traditions from heritages together with my friends. Learning about each other's roots and sharing traditions from different cultures. Cooking together is something that is very important as well as when during cooking you evoke memories and stories from the past.
What does Heritage mean to you? Are their important traditions that you have that were passed on through your family?"
Hue:
"I really love the way you investigate your heritage by diving into the archive of both of your parents and discovering your roots.
I like histories, documentary films and movies based on true stories. When I was a child I immersed myself in story folklore, myths, fairy tales, and miraculous stories that occurred at a time that was often regarded as "The History of the Nation". But I haven't been ever thought about investigating my own roots by photography. Even though I always said that photography is my best skill to help me get to know more about myself. But I just can't.
So I really admire those people who can do it by photography like you.
Heritage is a broad topic to me, again.
When talking about heritage, most often we’ll think of history and heritage as being about national events or “Places Where Things Happened” or “Important People”. But it’s a lot more than that.
Heritage matters in a unique way for each of us. It’s key to local distinctiveness and identity that helps me to understand who I am and who I am not.
It maybe simply about our music, our food, our traditions even the pictures we took in the past. The language I speak or words my family made up years ago that just became part of my day-by-day conversation. It could be "heritage" also.
Hmm, yeah, for this week, I choose the picture show the objects and family's old photos hanging on the wall which were taken from last century by their ancestors and kept by generations to come. This picture was taken at a house in Hanoi Old Quarter.
How about you, Oxiea?
I'm so excited to hear more about your Grandma."
"I really love the way you investigate your heritage by diving into the archive of both of your parents and discovering your roots.
I like histories, documentary films and movies based on true stories. When I was a child I immersed myself in story folklore, myths, fairy tales, and miraculous stories that occurred at a time that was often regarded as "The History of the Nation". But I haven't been ever thought about investigating my own roots by photography. Even though I always said that photography is my best skill to help me get to know more about myself. But I just can't.
So I really admire those people who can do it by photography like you.
Heritage is a broad topic to me, again.
When talking about heritage, most often we’ll think of history and heritage as being about national events or “Places Where Things Happened” or “Important People”. But it’s a lot more than that.
Heritage matters in a unique way for each of us. It’s key to local distinctiveness and identity that helps me to understand who I am and who I am not.
It maybe simply about our music, our food, our traditions even the pictures we took in the past. The language I speak or words my family made up years ago that just became part of my day-by-day conversation. It could be "heritage" also.
Hmm, yeah, for this week, I choose the picture show the objects and family's old photos hanging on the wall which were taken from last century by their ancestors and kept by generations to come. This picture was taken at a house in Hanoi Old Quarter.
How about you, Oxiea?
I'm so excited to hear more about your Grandma."
Oxiea Villamonte preparing food
Nguyen Thanh Hue preparing food