My-Lan Hoang-Thuy
My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, Violets, Autoportraits photographiques, impression jet d’encre, liant acrylique, pigments, 2020, Courtesy of the artist, Photo © Aurélien Mole
My-Lan Hoang-Thuy was born in 1990 in Bourg-la-Reine. She graduated in applied arts from Ecole Duperré (2015) and Beaux-arts de Paris (2018). In 2018, she was nominated for the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts, won the Graduate Photography Award and then exhibited at the Salon de Montrouge. She participated in the Artpress Biennial of Young Artists at the Museum of Modern Art in Saint-Etienne (2020). Her works are in the public collections of the FRAC Aquitaine and the City of Montrouge.
Born into a family of high dignitaries of the Vietnamese aristocracy, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy has inherited the nostalgia and feelings of disenfranchisement that are shared with those who were forced to leave their homeland, an emotional, social, cultural and economic anchorage, by the horrors of war. At the intersection of her family and personal history and the history of the world in the twentieth century, a powerful imagination has taken place, fed by reminiscences, stories, hopes and dreams. The creation of fictional worlds and characters drawn on sheets of A4 paper was during the long years of her childhood and adolescence the raw material of her personal and hidden expression.
In the works of My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, the intersection of sacred regimes in everyday life, between the Eastern and European cultures was embodied in particular among her illustrious predecessors by the Nabis who inspired her. In the same way that the artist knows how to give birth to the feeling of preciousness in modest materials, accentuated by the use of small formats.