Nắm Chặt Lại Lần Cuối

Hùng Lê , artist

born 1999

Nắm Chặt Lại Lần Cuối, 2025

Material/technique: organza; cotton; machine stitching; beading; printing; paperboard; metallic trim

Credit line: Courtesy of the artist

Accession number: EL2025.084

On display: Perkins Central Court

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My Mother's Tongue Ties Me Together

This piece utilizes jogakbo, a Korean patchwork technique that incorporates scraps of fabric stitched together in various geometric patterns to create a larger cloth. Hùng Lê uses jogakbo to piece together a recreation of a body, referencing his late grandfather, to question what it means to communicate with the dead, to be reincarnated, or to time travel to the past.