Alison Nguyen presents “history as hypnosis” at the op.cit./foundation in Mexico City, after its premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in December 2023. There will be a line-up of events including a listening session at the Radio Nopal on 4 February, and a film screening at the Queretáro Museum on 10 February. Solo exhibition “Confusion Technique” opens on 6 February at 7pm, on view through 7 April 2024.
“history as hypnosis” is a speculative road movie that unfolds through cultural memory of the US war in Vietnam, it follows three women, recently reprogrammed by an artificial intelligence that has wiped all traces of their previous lives, as they journey through an uncanny desert landscape to a nearby metropolis. In Nguyen’s hands, these figures without memory or history become a cinematic use case for themes of alienation, assimilation, and refusal.
