"This exhibition is a tribute to the life and work of Dinh Q Lê, one of the most influential contemporary artists to have emerged from South East Asia. Its title also refers to his way of working and to how memory, perception, travel, and research were both his subjects and his driving force." - David Elliott
10 Chancery Lane Gallery presents Remembrance, a major tribute to the life and work of Dinh Q. Lê (1965–2024), one of the most influential contemporary artists to emerge from Southeast Asia. Curated by David Elliott, the exhibition honours an artist whose practice was driven by questions of memory, identity, history, and the unstable terrain between truth and representation.
Remembrance celebrates an artist who wove together fractured histories and contested truths with compassion, precision, and quiet defiance. In revealing how everything—memory, ideology, commerce, trauma—“merges and weaves in and out of each other,” Dinh Q. Lê leaves a legacy that continues to resonate across generations and geographies.
Throughout his career, Lê exhibited internationally in major museums and biennales, bringing Southeast Asian perspectives into global discourse. Yet his work remained grounded in a deeply humane vision: a belief in the right to freedom, in the necessity of questioning inherited narratives, and in the power of images to both wound and heal.
