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Hà My Nguyễn

Under My Skin (Mồng tơi) Pavé n°5, 2026

ceramic

30 x 30 x 10 cm

Inv: HMN_2026-004

Can be sold in a set of 3
[FR]Dans « Under My Skin (Mồng tơi) Pavé n°5 » (2026), Hà My Nguyễn explore le seuil délicat entre la surface du corps et les souvenirs qui y sont enfouis. La céramique, lisse et pâle, prend l’aspect d’une membrane souple évoquant la peau ; elle est marquée par un léger creux central et de délicates excroissances qui surgissent sur ses bords. Ces formations organiques rappellent la plante *mồng tơi*, introduisant une présence naturelle familière au sein d’une forme qui évoque tout autant la chair, les cicatrices et la vulnérabilité du corps. Entre tendresse et malaise, l’œuvre interroge la manière dont la douleur et la mémoire s’accumulent au fil du temps, façonnant peu à peu le corps de l’intérieur. Par la tension qui s’établit entre la surface fragile de la céramique et la vie qui semble vouloir en percer l’enveloppe, Hà My transforme une forme corporelle intime en un paysage silencieux, empreint de réminiscences, de résilience et d’émotions dissimulées.

[EN]In "Under My Skin (Mồng tơi) Pavé n°5" (2026), Hà My Nguyễn explores the delicate threshold between the body’s surface and the memories held beneath it. The smooth, pale ceramic takes the form of a soft, skin-like membrane, marked by a subtle central indentation and delicate protrusions that emerge along its edges. These organic growths evoke the mồng tơi plant, introducing a familiar natural presence into a form that also suggests flesh, scars, and bodily vulnerability. Balancing tenderness with unease, the work reflects on how pain and memory accumulate over time, gradually shaping the body from within. Through the tension between the ceramic’s fragile surface and the life that appears to press through it, Hà My transforms an intimate bodily form into a quiet landscape of recollection, resilience, and concealed emotion.

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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