Hoa Dung Clerget French–Vietnamese, b. 1985
Overview
Hoa Dung Clerget (b. 1985 Paris, France) works across painting, craft, installation and performance. Her work reflects on the transformation of domestic objects. Hoa Dung often deconstructs the everyday material and reimagines it in a new form urging the viewer towards stories about the cultural transmission of traditions and gestures in families. Working with mundane objects located in her French-Vietnamese education, Hoa Dung creates a bridge between different places and produces an instantaneous community that allows her to reverse the situation of displacement and fragmentation encountered by the diaspora. Behind each transformation of a domestic object there is a search to reduce means while building an accumulation of gestures. The works often refer to the history of Minimalist art in this partially unfulfilled desire not to overdo.
Recent solo exhibition: Durian Revolution, Studio Chapple, London (2023). Recent group exhibitions include: Tươi Sống (Fresh and alive), Harlesden High Street, London (2024); Beauty Tech Art Spa, Cornershop, London (2023); Positions, Alma Pearl, London (2023); The Expanse in-between, Grove Collective, London (2022); Un/Sense, Christie’s, London (2022); Paradise, Harlesden High Street, Lecce, Italy (2022), Mothering, Kupfer Project, London (2022).
Works
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Hoa Dung ClergetDurian Revolution (Jade), 2022UV Gel Polish, glitter powder for nails, UV jelly extension gel, epoxy on canvas30 x 24 cm
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Hoa Dung ClergetDurian Revolution (Purple blood), 2022UV Gel Polish, glitter powder for nails, epoxy on canvas30 x 24 cm
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Hoa Dung ClergetDurian Revolution (Unicorn), 2022UV Gel Polish, glitter powder for nails, epoxy on canvas30 x 24 cm
Exhibitions
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Porous Abstraction
30 Jan - 22 Mar 2025Alma Pearl is pleased to announce Porous Abstraction. On view from 30 January, the show features recent work by BLCKGEEZER, Hoa Dung Clerget, Sophie Goodchild and Luca Longhi. While exploring...Read more -
Positions, Part One
28 Apr - 10 Jun 2023Positions, part one runs 28 April to 10 June with a private view on Thursday, 27 April 6-9pm; Positions, part two will run from 23 June-3 August.Read more