Photograph by Christian Rodríguez

Abstract

“I am working on this project with the two biggest companies in Vietnam. At Lenin Park, home to the Vietnam Circus Federation, several leading companies are to be found. At the circus building, families and artists share rooms. In what I call 'the little rose room' the walls are that color and all inhabitants are female. In the former Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, one can find the Ho Chi Minh Circus Group. Most of the artists live in an abandoned theater. Due to the physical demands of the profession, artists in their early thirties have already retired from daily activity. Early marriage is a characteristic feature of Vietnamese society. Although all of them are single now, they will probably marry soon.”