The exhibition takes as its preamble a line from the poem A Soldier Speaks of His Generation (1973): “...our generation has never slept”. Expressing the profundity of war experience and its enduring effects on the human psyche, the phrase is an entry point from which the presentation can be read and accessed. With focus placed on the works of eight key artists who were assigned to the front as war artists by the government in Hanoi, and viewing them as independent actors, the exhibition prompts questions into the agency of the artworks and its associated narratives.