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Hà My Nguyễn

Seuil de Chair n°2, 2025

Pastel and ceramic

27 x 21 x 5 cm

Inv: HMN_2026-013

[FR] Dans « Seuil de Chair n°2 » (2025), Hà My Nguyễn explore la frontière poreuse entre l’extérieur du corps et sa vie intérieure dissimulée. Une image rectangulaire sombre, représentant une forme organique aux couleurs riches, est enchâssée dans un cadre irrégulier en céramique pâle, dont les bords déchirés et repliés évoquent une peau rompue ou une ouverture dans la chair. Décliné dans des nuances de rouges profonds, de violets et d’ocres, le motif central suggère une graine, un organe ou une forme de vie suspendue entre croissance et décomposition. Le contraste entre l’image aux teintes pastel délicates et la céramique sculpturale, riche en texture, instaure une tension entre représentation et présence physique, entre dissimulation et révélation. En associant ces matériaux, Hà My transforme l’acte d’ouvrir en un geste d’intimité, permettant à ce qui se trouve sous la surface de surgir tel un fragment de mémoire incarnée, de vulnérabilité et de transformation.

[EN]In "Seuil de Chair n°2" (2025), Hà My Nguyễn explores the porous boundary between the body’s exterior and its concealed inner life. A dark, rectangular image depicting a richly coloured, organic form is held within an irregular frame of pale ceramic, whose torn, folded edges evoke ruptured skin or an opening in the flesh. Rendered in deep reds, purples, and ochres, the central motif suggests a seed, an organ, or a life-form suspended between growth and decay. The contrast between the delicate pastel image and the tactile, sculptural ceramic creates a tension between representation and physical presence, concealment and revelation. By bringing these materials together, Hà My transforms the act of opening into a gesture of intimacy, allowing what lies beneath the surface to emerge as a fragment of embodied memory, vulnerability, and transformation.

About the artist

Hà My Nguyễn

French - Vietnamese

b. 1991

Hà My Nguyễn (b.1991) grew up in the mountainous regions of central Vietnam near the border with Laos, immersed in the freedom and rhythms of the natural landscape. She studied traditional lacquer at the Hue University of Arts, where she developed her practice before relocating to Paris in 2018.

Hà My’s artistic research delves into marginalized knowledge embedded in everyday life, such as the peculiar fruits, wild plants, and inherited cooking recipes that have long nurtured communities, particularly women, in her native region. By engaging with these practices, she explores the intersections of femininity, nature, and resilience, while critically examining the erasures and transmissions of these forms of knowledge across generations and geographies.

Working across ceramics, drawing, and installation, Hà My’s practice visualizes forms that inhabit the liminal space between the human, the vegetal, and the imaginary. She often evokes these forms as “bloomings” or “dream seeds,” subtle presences that carry both tenderness and quiet strength, rooted in her childhood memories while resonating with her current life in France.

A selection of her exhibitions includes: Flesh and Leaf, Sap and Seed, Galerie Bao, Paris, France, 2026; Flesh and Leaf, Sap and Seed, Asia Now Galerie Bao, Paris, France, 2025; Et… Vlan!, Galerie du Haut Pavé, Paris, France, 2024; +6 Affinités, Bureau d’art et de recherche, Roubaix, France, 2023, SALO X, Salon Dessin Erotique, Paris, France, 2022, Utopia Land, Heritage Space, Hanoï, Vietnam, 2017, Sindikat Campusari, The Japan Foundation Asia Center,Jakarta, Indonesia, 2016, Giống-Không-Giống, Kebun Bibi, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2015, Chòn-Chòn, Huế museum of Culture, Huế, Vietnam 2015, Tran8tate, Université d’Art de Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Thaïlande, Hue Mong Hue Mo, New Space Arts Foundation, Huế, Vietnam, 2014.

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