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Echo of Orange - an
exhibition of pictures and photographs exploring the legacy of Agent Orange -
opened last Friday at the Gallery at 29 Hang Bai Street, Ha Noi.
Visitors can view 104 works by
81 artists from Ha Noi and neighbouring provinces until Wednesday.
Most of the pictures on
display vividly portray US Air Force planes spraying the defoliant on forests
throughout south Viet Nam, and victims born with congenital defects as a result
of the toxic chemicals.
The works form a collective
plea for empathy with Agent Orange victims, and symbolise artists’ hopes for
peace and a pure environment.
Outstanding pictures that have
deeply moved viewers include Toxins From The Past War Absorbed Into My Sister’s
Body, a picture by Quach Thi Ngoc An, The Dream That Never Comes Back by Tran
Manh Linh and Agent Orange – Why? by Dang Toan Hung. Artist Do Phan presented
Agent Orange Obsession, a picture voted second best at the Military Exhibition
2002 for the Viet Nam Association for Victims of Agent Orange.
The show was organised by the
Viet Nam Union of Associations of Literature and Arts and the US Fund for
Reconciliation and Development. Some of the most prominent pictures were already
exhibited in Switzerland in 2002.
After this exhibition, 30 of the best
pictures will be selected for display in the United States for two years in
order to call for support from the international community for Agent Orange
victims and to further boost mutual understanding between Vietnamese and
American people
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