Seen and Unseen" by Trinh T. Minh-ha at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.

Filmmaker, composer, poet, writer, literature critic and educator, Trinh T. Minh-ha (Hanoi, 1952) is one of the most important voices in independent cinema worldwide. Since the early 1980s, she has carried out a film and theoretical work that is considered foundational for postcolonial and feminist approaches and that has significantly blurred the boundaries between documentary and fiction: she fits into the complex category of "experimental ethnographic cinema."

After emigrating to the United States in 1970, during the Vietnam War, from 1977 onwards she taught at the National Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art in Dakar (Senegal). From this period date the publication of African Spaces: Designs for Living in Upper Volta (1985), together with the photographer and architect Jean-Paul Bourdier, as well as her first two 16mm pieces, Reassemblage (1982) and Naked Spaces - Living Is Round (1985), both produced by Bourdier, as well as the rest of her filmography. From 1992 to 2022, Minh-ha taught in the Departments of Rhetoric, Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Berkeley (California).

She has made nine films so far: Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989), Shoot for the Contents (1991), A Tale of Love (1995), The Fourth Dimension (2001), Night Passage (2004), Forgetting Vietnam (2016) and What About China? (2022), in addition to those mentioned above.

Among her theoretical writings, Women, Native, Other (1989), When the Moon Waxes Red (1991), Elsewhere, Within Here (2011) and Lovecidal: Walking with The Disappeared (2016) stand out, along with various interview compilations and the screenplays of Framer Framed (1992), Cinema Interval (1999), The Digital Film Event (2005) and D-Passage. The Digital Way (2013).

This is Trinh T. Minh-ha's first exhibition in Spain.

It can be visited for free from Tuesday to Sunday and holidays, from 11am to 8pm.