One Blue Eye, Two Servings : Nicole Won Hee Maloof and Tammy Nguyen

Nicole Won Hee Maloof and Tammy Nguyen’s two-woman exhibition, One Blue Eye, Two Servings, weaves fictional and biographical references to the banana into a complex socio-cultural matrix. Maloof’s video, “What color is a banana?” (2017) cleverly considers the multi-dimensional nature of this fruit, an ostensibly benign object of nutrition, and a food whose production process requires human intervention and has been detrimental to its laborers. Simultaneously exploring theories around sight, color, race, and language, the artist also analyzes the term banana as a racially-charged slur for Asian Americans. Her meticulous...