As part of his residency at the Capc, Noah Truong will work on developing a narrative that begins with a journey to Vietnam. There, the narrator is confronted—at his own cost—with the remnants of the Indochina and Vietnam wars, which forced his family into exile in France. He sets out in search of his ancestors’ cemetery in the Mekong Valley. His father, the French–South Vietnamese painter and comic book author Marcelino Truong, accompanies him virtually from France, recounting from afar the family’s story: the war that opposed North and South Vietnam, overshadowed by the conflict with French and American powers. His own father was the personal interpreter of the first president of the short-lived Republic of South Vietnam, Ngô Đình Diệm. What does it mean when our family histories are histories of war? How do we tell them to ourselves? Can we refuse to be part of them?
 

Noah Truong is a writer, poet, and visual artist. He is the author of two poetry collections, Manuel pour changer de corps (Cambourakis, 2024) and Et Pourtant (Paulette Editrice, 2025). He also contributes to anthologies (L’année poétique : esprit de résistance, Seghers, 2025) and collective works (Dustan, l’héritage, Paulette Editrice, 2025). His work is deeply informed by Monique Wittig’s materialist philosophy and by feminist and postcolonial cultural studies, which position writing as a site of intervention in hegemonic cultural representations (Homi K. Bhabha). He has explored, in particular, what writing can “do” to gender and gendered bodies. He is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris and of the Master’s program in Creative Writing at Université Paris 8.