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As the child of a Vietnamese contract worker who migrated to the GDR in 1987, Tieu often reflects on themes of factory labor. The exhibition connects footage from the Lumière Brothers’ 1899/1900 film, showing children leaving the Meffre & Bourgoin brick factory in Hanoi under the watchful eye of a French colonial officer, to objects crafted by Vietnamese workers in 1980s East Germany. Among these are nine radios lined up on the gallery floor, tuned to a frequency that plays the artist’s sound work. As the radios fill the space with industrial sounds, the black-and-white photographs titled (Un)kraut reference the fate of the contract workers deemed “superfluous” after German reunification, whose recruitment agreements were terminated. These works reflect the enduring experiences of racism and exclusion faced by the Vietnamese community that has remained in Germany to this day.