“Kartoffel”: what more prosaic thing than this lowly root vegetable could there be, whose name also happens to be a derogatory term used to describe Germans?
“Kartoffel”: what more prosaic thing than this lowly root vegetable could there be, whose name also happens to be a derogatory term used to describe Germans? Phung-Tien Phan takes up the potato as the thread running through her exhibition. Featuring all-new sculpture, video, and installation, Kartoffel reveals a practice that explores diasporic experience, female labor, and late capitalist modes of production in ways that are simultaneously tender, lo-fi, and humorous.
