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In partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara we proudly present our latest exhibition entitled Core Memory featuring recent works by Hương Ngô.

Core Memory

Core Memory is an exhibition of works exploring the Southeast Asian refugee experience, through the lens of Hương Ngô’s parents and siblings’ experiences. It begins with the artist’s desire to learn about her parents’ labor as assembly line workers in electronics factories, where they created capacitors, resistors, and motherboards – components which modulate tempo, pitch, and memory in electronics. Using these vintage components, she creates circuits as sculptures that gesture towards her parents' creativity, efforts not legible in the output of their wage labor.

The project also examines the larger meaning and collective memory of Southeast Asian refugees working in racially integrated electronics factories, a career path quite common amongst this demographic. How was the representation of this migrant body both mobilized and erased in the radicalization of technology and labor from the last few decades? To what extent was the technology industry built upon the collective trauma and labor of Southeast Asian refugees?

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