All Things Considered (2019)
All Things Considered (2019)
41 digital prints
5'50" audio excerpt from the court hearing of Hàng Thị Hồng Diễm at the People's Court of Bình Dương Province
All Things Considered is based on a murder case in 2017 in Vietnam's industrial town of Bình Dương. 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 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 Hàng Thị Hồng Diễm at the People's Court of Bình Dương Province
All Things Considered is based on a murder case in 2017 in Vietnam's industrial town of Bình Dương. 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 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.