Curators
An Lê is a documentarian interested in the social life of technologies and how digital worlds impact how we pay attention and make meaning: what does it mean to know ourselves through the traces of self we leave behind online? Her curatorial practice builds on these questions, engaging mediated memory and vernacular archives as sites through which inherited histories are preserved and alternative futures are imagined. Her documentary photography attends to queerness and worldmaking in everyday Vietnamese diasporic life, where images are not static objects but active participants in culture, formed over time through curation and archiving by people and institutions. She holds a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and calls Little Saigon home.
Brenda Huỳnh is a graphic designer based in the Bay Area and Orange County. She holds a B.A. in Asian American Studies, a B.A. in Film and Media Studies, and an M.A. in Asian American Studies from the University of California, Irvine. Through her creative and scholarly work, Brenda explores the everyday life practices of refugee women and documents these practices as sites of memory, storytelling, and historical preservation within the diaspora. Grounded in Critical Refugee Studies, she seeks to understand how trauma, heavily stemming from Western imperialism and colonialism, continues to affect the lives of Southeast Asian women. Her research engages concepts of memory keeping, silence, fragmented storytelling, and gendered spaces, examining how these everyday acts carry the past into the present and sustain forms of gendered knowledge production.