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The Desiring Garden (Vietnam, 2011)

Within the highly urbanized environment of Hanoi, Jamie Maxtone-Graham captures the reactions of people who encounter a staged garden full of flowers, fruit, vegetables and animals that were bought in the markets of Vietnam’s capital. The result is a Rousseauesque game with our ideas of the exotic, in which the logic of the location, and the photographic document itself, are undermined.

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