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Hoa Dung Clerget (b. 1985, France)
︎︎︎un/sense
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Hoa Dung Clerget (b. 1985, France)
︎︎︎un/sense
Whether painting, craft, installation or performance, each work reflects a transformation of the objects of Hoa Dung Clerget’s French-Vietnamese heritage. It allows her to take on a narrative dimension on the themes of the domestic and displacement. Clerget’s works affirm their materiality through gestures borrowed from everyday life, the ones of the women in her family and community.
Each installation/performance aims to create with the public an instantaneous community allowing to reverse some situation of displacement encountered by the immigrants. All these mundane objects or everyday gestures Clergent uses in her practice are linked to the concept of Home and create a bridge between the different places (Vietnam, France and the exhibition space in London) and the different people (the Vietnamese community, the artist and the viewer) giving substance to the stories.
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Each installation/performance aims to create with the public an instantaneous community allowing to reverse some situation of displacement encountered by the immigrants. All these mundane objects or everyday gestures Clergent uses in her practice are linked to the concept of Home and create a bridge between the different places (Vietnam, France and the exhibition space in London) and the different people (the Vietnamese community, the artist and the viewer) giving substance to the stories.
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Installation view: Durian Revolution (February 2023), Hoa Dung Clerget’s solo exhibition at Studio Chapple, London. Image Courtesy of the artist and the gallery. 
Hoa Dung Clerget, The trace (2021). Image Courtesy of the artist.
Hoa Dung Clerget, The trace (2021), detail. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view: Hoa Dung Clerget in ality (November 2021), group exhibition curated by Louis Chapple at Hackney Down Studios, London. 
Hoa Dung Clerget, Durian Revolution (Unicorn), 2022. Image Courtesy of the artist.
Hoa Dung Clerget, Embroidery (Judd), Red, Number 1, 2019-2020. Image Courtesy of the artist.