with Fungi aka Phuong Tran Minh, artist
and Aljoscha Begrich, dramaturge and curator

In Mein ferner Osten (My Far East), Fungi aka Phuong Tran Minh, who grew up in Saxony-Anhalt as the daughter of Vietnamese contract labourers, sets off with her mother in search of remaining traces. Her photographic road movie is driven by the urge to learn what happened in these places and how the mother and daughter might relate to them today – and to assure themselves that these places actually exist and form the concrete ground of their shared history. The images are accompanied by poems. They deal with experiences of marginalisation: of hatred, racism and violence. But they are also about the silencing of parents and their belief that promises for the future can only be realised if suffering is endured and injustice is kept silent. It is clear that the images are unsettled and full of traces of personal history. The texts sensually charge the (pictorial) spaces that represent her home where she nonetheless remains a stranger.