All Things Considered (2019)
All Things Considered (Vì Các Lẽ Trên)
41 digital prints
5:50 audio excerpt from the court hearing of Hang Thi Hong Diem at People's Court of Binh Duong Province in 2018
All Things Considered is based on a murder case in Bình Dương in 2017. Out of jealousy and in self-defense, a woman named Hàng Thị Hồng Diễm killed her husband and dismembered his body at their home in a factory worker dormitory. The so-called crime of passion made national headlines because of its grotesque yet compelling details. During trial, she recounted what happened on that fateful night. Yet throughout the four-hour public interrogation, a piece of truth remained elusive, impossible to be put into words.
Combining audio excerpted from the trial with photographs of observed and staged situations, this work endeavors to recreate the incident based on the testimony of the woman/convict.
41 digital prints
5:50 audio excerpt from the court hearing of Hang Thi Hong Diem at People's Court of Binh Duong Province in 2018
All Things Considered is based on a murder case in Bình Dương in 2017. Out of jealousy and in self-defense, a woman named Hàng Thị Hồng Diễm killed her husband and dismembered his body at their home in a factory worker dormitory. The so-called crime of passion made national headlines because of its grotesque yet compelling details. During trial, she recounted what happened on that fateful night. Yet throughout the four-hour public interrogation, a piece of truth remained elusive, impossible to be put into words.
Combining audio excerpted from the trial with photographs of observed and staged situations, this work endeavors to recreate the incident based on the testimony of the woman/convict.