The Reimagined Landscape

The Reimagined Landscape, absence as presence explores the representation of death through photography. The photograph offers a paradoxical form of presence: what it depicts is no longer here, yet it once existed. This tension creates what Roland Barthes describes as a “new form of hallucination”—false in perception because the subject is absent, yet true in time because it has indeed been. Photography becomes an inventory of mortality, preserving traces of what has passed while allowing absence to endure as presence.

Death is not an end, but the final stage of one life transforming into another.

Ann Le, The Reimagined Landscape, vietnam war, vietnamese art, contemporary photography

 

ông Ngoại (Maternal Grandfather) and Bullet Riddled tree trunk, 17"x24", 2017

Ann Le, The Reimagined Landscape, vietnam war, vietnamese art, contemporary photography

Mẹ (Mom) and Bullet Riddled tree trunk, 21"x28", 2017

 

Dì út (Youngest Aunt) and Bullet Riddled tree trunk, 15"x20", 2017

Cậu Tư (Uncle 4) and Rừng (Jungle) pathway, 16"x21", 2017

Ann Le annsgood mom contemporary art vietnam collage photomontage

 

Mẹ (Mom) in Can Tho, 16"x20", 2020 

Ann Le annsgood jungle foliage grave contemporary art vietnam collage photomontage

 

Phần Mộ / Grave, 24"x30", 2020

Ann Le annsgood raft contemporary art vietnam collage photomontage jungle foliage

 

Abandoned Raft in Rừng (Jungle), 24"x30", 2020

Ann Le annsgood home contemporary art vietnam collage photomontage jungle foliage

 

Nhà / House, 24"x30", 2020