Nicole Cao
For Her Words
Nicole Cao
For Her Words
For Her Words
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About
This 7m long graphic novel strip tells two parallel stories
with divergent cultural contexts to foreground overlapping themes of identity,
belonging, and betrayal. The first narrative borrows the tumult and violence
from the practices and events of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) to reveal
the same qualities within the second narrative’s modern context. A mixture of
graphic novel and collage “recontextualizes” the strong slogans and pointed
gestures of the revolution era to explore how the destructive desire for
belonging pervades through word and image across culture and time.
About
This 7m long graphic novel strip tells two parallel stories
with divergent cultural contexts to foreground overlapping themes of identity,
belonging, and betrayal. The first narrative borrows the tumult and violence
from the practices and events of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) to reveal
the same qualities within the second narrative’s modern context. A mixture of
graphic novel and collage “recontextualizes” the strong slogans and pointed
gestures of the revolution era to explore how the destructive desire for
belonging pervades through word and image across culture and time.
