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Exhibition Opening | Thu, April 09, 5PM | Goethe-Institut Maya Nguyen: Lateral Entrant

Join us for the opening of LATERAL ENTRANT, a site-specific exhibition by Maya Nguyen that explores migrant strategies of camouflage and adaptation.

Moving between languages, time zones, and visual cultures that connect Vietnam, Germany, and the United States, Nguyen considers translation as a form of arrival. Titled after the German word 'Quereinsteiger,' which refers to someone with nontraditional training who transfers into a new professional field, LATERAL ENTRANT is installed throughout the Goethe-Institut Chicago's space and responds to its environment in an office building. Incorporating video, photography, and performance, this exhibition considers coincidence, misinterpretation, and analogy as tools for investigating both individual biographies and broader experiences of immigration.

Light refreshments will be served. Please register in advance.

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