My primitive contact with drawing was made in childhood, as a tool for apprehension and understanding of my environment, as a channel between oneself and the world.
The experience of drawing as a creator or contemplating subject is an event that everyone is confronted with in their existence. It carries within a universal aspect; it can be received by all because "drawing is the language of sight, the language that does not need words"1. Thus it is a common denominator and undoubtedly one of the first contact of humanity to the power of the image.
Today I deploy this medium in various forms; wall drawing, drawing on paper, books, performances and installations. Approaching it from a multiplicity of angles, I thus try to question it as much in its setting in space as in its own material. By moving away from the idea of a defined protocol, I apprehend this material as a set of phenomena, as a moving organicity.
It is a question of descending into the depths of being which is the fruitful place to extract the essence of things. So I keep coming back to this triangular "descend, work, embody." Thus, the drawing becomes a vehicle, a means of exploring the depths in order to bring out worlds.
The traces that come from it are most often intimate narratives where fiction and historical facts mingle, most often tinged with my taste for the margins and the impalpable. My work is most often made in a logic of series. Each of these formal manifestations takes shape at the end of a mixture of documentary research and imaginary exploration in an attempt to make visible the flesh of the world.
Invisible territories, beliefs, myths but also interstitial stories are the foundation of my work. These themes are thus the parents of my productions, which are in fact mixed and linked together. The challenge of my practice is how to place these major themes in oneself, to transform them, to make them emerge through drawing into subjective stories visible to others.
My work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in France and abroad, at the Institut Français d'Hô Chi Minh Ville (2018), l'Espace (Institut Français de Hanoi ,2017), SPRMKT (Singapore, 2018), Zigzagger (artist-run space, Hô Chi Minh Ville, 2019) and Metaxu (Toulon, France, 2020).
I have taken also took part in group shows, and my work is receiving an increasing international attention. Some of my work has recently been seen at the 12th Berlin Biennale (Still present, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, 2022), Festival Jeune Creation 73 ( Espace Oscar Niemeyer, Paris, 2023), Dogs Dogs Dogs (Ambidextr Gallery, Istanbul, 2023) at "1" and historia de Boudoir (O Gabinete de Madame Thao, Lisbon, 2022), Xoxo (Axolotl Galerie, Toulon, France, 2021), Low res (Rue de Tanger, Casablanca, Morocco, 2019), RỪNG (Forêt, Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts, 2018) and at Salon DDessin (Paris, 2018).
1 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice : Eye and mind. Gallimard
