Prune Phi
In response to the COVID crisis, Triangle-Astérides and La Friche joined forces to provide workspaces for artists from the Marseille area in the fall of 2020.
Prune Phi creates installation works composed of photographs, drawings, collages, collected documents, texts, and videos. Through these, she stages and questions the mechanisms of transmission within families and communities. She explores physical traits that persist or, on the contrary, fade from one generation to the next, as well as bodily changes and anomalies. In other series, she gathers and intertwines the testimonies of multiple generations of Vietnamese immigrants and exiles, examining the uncertain memory of their shared history and the fictional dimension that accompanies it. Through these various works, she seeks to reveal the mnemonic traces that contribute to each individual’s construction and invention of self.
Following studies in Fine Arts and a Master’s in Artistic Creation, Theory, and Mediation, Prune Phi completed a one-year residency at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in the United Kingdom before joining the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, from which she graduated in 2018.
She exhibits in France and across Europe, notably at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles (2018) and the Festival Circulation(s) in Paris (2019). Her project Appel manqué was published by Filigranes Editions (2018) following the Résidence 1+2. In 2020, Prune Phi continued the Création en cours residency with Ateliers Médicis, as well as the Villa Saigon program in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in collaboration with the Institut Français. She is currently developing Aujourd’hui n’est pas encore arrivé, a multidisciplinary project exploring South Asian traditions reinterpreted in contemporary contexts—new rituals incorporating new technologies within a framework of postcolonial reflections.
