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Danh Vo has personally experienced radical displacement: as a child, he emigrated from Vietnam to Denmark by boat. This foundational event forced him to adapt and live between two cultures. His story, he says, is also ours: each of us, in one way or another, carries within us the scars of the Vietnam War, of Christian evangelization, of political conflicts between the West and other continents, of the mix of our origins

The worl untitled (2020), is a suitcase housing fragments of a religious sculpture, reminiscent of the small icons taken as souvenirs of travel, of war, or of pilgrimages across borders. These work of Danh Vo invite us, beyond the heartbreak of individual or collective history, to a common consciousness turned toward a possible future

The Pinault Collection first showed this work in 2023 at the Punta della Dogana  in Venice, as part of the exhibition Icones.