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ARTWORK / DESIGN BY

Winnie
Duong



︎SW ATLANTA




01 Installation


Winnie in the middle of her installation 四/死  (2021)

ARTS @ OAKLAND



Historic Oakland Cemetery

“Arts at Oakland 2021, happening May 21 through 31 (2021), showcases the work of six amazing regional artists in five installations across Oakland Cemetery via a self-guided map. The artistic installations will highlight the hidden stories that can be found within the gardens and architecture of Oakland Cemetery.”
- HOC Foundation.

Personally featured on

︎ Artist Interview with Winnie Duong post on HOF Blog and on the radio and article by ︎ NPR WABE 90.1 FM ATL on ︎ CITY LIGHTS with host Lois Reitzes! (aired live 5/20/2021)



Event Information

This annual Historic Oakland Cemetery Foundation Art & Culture Event is curated by Special Events Manager Mary Fernandez, and kindly facilitated by HOF Preservation Expert Sean Diaz, and Head Gardener Cooper Sanchez. ︎

Venue
︎  248 Oakland Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30312 ︎ May 21 – May 31, 2021 from dawn til dusk


Featured Artists

Bianca Walker    ︎   Tori Tinsley    ︎   Zipporah Thompson     ︎    Dorothy    ︎   O’Connor     ︎    Jeffry Loy     ︎    Winnie Duong     ︎   




四/死


 FOUR/DEATH

 (pronounced “seì / seǐ”)
“In this work, Duong explores death, existence, and the unknown– through symbolism of memorialistic rituals & traditions, classical style elements from her own culture and Oakland Cemetery's collection of mausolea. For her 四/死  installation, she uses found decorative materials to recreate four unrealistic and deconstructed forms of monumental mausolea as surreal structures that are viewable from multiple perspectives. She is a first generation Asian-American child of refugee immigrants from China and Vietnam.”

︎ The number 4 (四) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese culture because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (死).

︎ Mauseolea Styles deconstructed and conceptualized:  “Chinese” Temple; Gothic Revival; Greek Revival; and Beaux-Arts / Eclectic style.

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︎ The gold mesh fabric spilling from the deconstructed and stylized “Chinese mausoleum” symbolizes sharing the wealth of offerings to the afterlife as it spills down over the retaining to the other cemetery neighbors.  On the Chinese holiday “Tomb-Sweeping”, our family tradition includes paying respects to surrounding tombstones / “neighbors “ so that they are nice to my grandparents in the afterlife by leaving small offerings on the headstones or surrounding ground i.e. the currency stack on top of Greene, a pillow and bed that glows in the dark incase they are afraid of the dark.

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