Artist Talk & Screening with Quynh Lam

Dec. 9th at 3pm

Centro de Artes e Criatividade de Torres Vedras (CAC)

During her residency at AiR 351, Quynh has been deepening her research through on-site exploration, material experimentation, and conversations with the local community. Her work interlaces the historical and cultural landscapes of Torres Vedras with her ongoing investigation of geographic traces and ecological memory.
Come meet the artist, hear about her process, and experience the screening of new work developed during her time in Portugal.

The artist developed a research-based project that draws on two distinct “lines”: the immense defensive system of the Linhas de Torres Vedras, engineered during the Peninsular War, and the soft, shifting line of the Sizandro River, where reeds grow along its banks. Her work in Portugal extends these inquiries into a terrain where natural and militarised histories coexist with quiet insistence. Through a site-specific procession using local reeds and community drummers, she investigates how natural and historical lines intersect in the shaping of memory.

Quynh Lam is a visual artist whose practice engages with local materials, ritual gestures, research-based field work, and histories embedded in place. Born in Vietnam and moving between Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States, she explores how landscapes hold memory, trauma, and traces of cultural identity, developing a transnational approach to heritage, history, and collective remembrance. Quynh has participated in international residencies, exhibitions, and site-specific projects across multiple continents. Her work reflects a commitment to rethinking our relationship to place — not only as observers, but as active participants in its histories, continuities, and subtle transformations.