gdm Taipei is pleased to present “Alison Nguyen: Prosthetic Memory”, the artist’s debut exhibition at the gallery, on view from 7 May to 26 July 2025. The exhibition features two speculative fictions—"history as hypnosis” and “Aisle 9”—that combines film, installation, and sculpture, presenting the artist’s perspective as a Vietnamese American, and her observations and reflections towards historical narratives, mass media, and cultural censorship.
Alison Nguyen (b. 1986) was born to a family who lived through the Vietnam war. The unspoken weight of the wartime memory carried by Nguyen’s family prompted the artist to question the war’s unseen legacies—the lingering impact of America’s military-industrial complex, surveillance technologies, and digital infrastructures.
Nguyen's coming of age coincides with the digital revolution, witnessing the internet’s evolution and the rise of artificial intelligence. Drawing from her Vietnamese diaspora roots, the artist interrogates how media technologies regulate and reconfigures collective memories, historical narratives, and cultural identity.
