Lê’s exhibition includes a series of photoweavings that push the possibility for creating three-dimensionality with two-dimensional materials. Lê has been creating photo-tapestries for nearly two decades, but unlike his earlier works, which featured grid-like structures, these photoweavings appear as though caught in a state of destabilization. The neat geometries of previous works are abandoned and replaced with dynamic curves that evoke movement and collapse. As in his earlier work, these pieces are created from sourced images of various conflicts – from the Vietnam War to the genocide in Cambodia – as well as from images of Michelangelo’s frescoes from the Sistine Chapel. Cut apart and then woven together, the work evokes the idea that there is no true historic ‘moment,’ but rather that history is a complicated series of multifaceted narratives.

In WTC in Four Moments, Lê has created a four-channel video work with sound that depicts four images of the World Trade Center: before the attack, during the attack, after the collapse, and during the rebuilding. For these works Lê printed 200-meter (656 ft.) long stretched digital versions of each image in Photoshop, and then put them through After Effects to create a six minute video of each. The abstracted version of the work removes all iconic connotations associated with September 11th, leaving the viewer to reconsider the events as a slow progression of moments that led to a cataclysmic trauma and the newly built One WTC.

Dinh Q. Lê lives in Vietnam and holds an MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He participated in the 2013 Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012, the 2009 Biennale Cuveê in Linz, Austria, the 2008 Singapore Biennale, and the 2006 Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, in Brisbane, Australia. His work has been exhibited at major institutions including: Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts; and the Asia Society, New York, New York, among many others. His work is currently the subject of the solo exhibition Crossing the Farther Shore at the Rice University Art Gallery.  The Mori Museum of Art in Tokyo is currently organizing a survey of his work for 2015. Lê's work is also included in numerous permanent collections including The Museum of Modern Art, The Ford Foundation, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art.