On Thursday 5/2/ from 16:30 pm. We will present the research in a form of a lecture by @quynh.lam.studio
@forplaysociety , as part of @aether_sofia at @kochibiennale
Quỳnh Lâm is a Vietnam-born visual artist whose research-driven practice investigates how landscapes carry memory, power, and ecological trace. Moving between Asia, the United States, and Europe, her work engages archival material, field research, ritual gesture, and site-specific processes to examine histories of fortification, colonial infrastructure, and what remains unresolved over time.
Through international residencies, exhibitions, and site-responsive projects across multiple continents, her practice rethinks our relationship to place—not as distant observers, but as active participants within layered historical terrains.
During her recent research in Portugal, she developed Fortification Studies: Linhas de Torres Vedras (2025), a series of map-based drawings grounded in fieldwork on a nineteenth-century defensive military strategy.
This research opens a dialogue with Fort Kochi, a site marked by early Portuguese fortification and maritime exchange across the Indian Ocean world. Reading Torres Vedras alongside Fort Kochi, Quỳnh Lâm traces how histories of defense, and mobility remain materially inscribed in land and water.