Go and see @carlosquijonjr and @kditzig’s show if you haven’t! It’s awesome! @bing___hao for @artforum : Off the beaten path, I was encouraged to find rigorous, research-based projects exploring the nuances and tensions of global solidarity movements. “In Our Best Interests: Afro-Southeast Asian Affinities during a Cold War,” an ambitious group exhibition cocurated by Kathleen Ditzig and @carlosquijonjr at Nanyang Technological University’s ADM Gallery, juxtaposed works by promising regional artists with archival materials, attesting to the curators’ skillful intertwining of scholarship and praxis. #VuthLyno’s three-channel video, 25, 2021, records a poignant conversation between three individuals of Afro-Cambodian descent twenty-five years after their fathers—all of them peacekeepers for the UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia)—abandoned them for their respective home countries. In a particularly discomfiting scene, a protagonist’s frank confession of mixed feelings toward UNTAC is met with uneasy silence, an allusion to the awkward irresolution of #ColdWar legacies. #KathleenDitzig #HemanChong #ArtForum (at NTU ADM Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK2vNt8lHyU/?igshid=1ue9dwfxoqjdd