My-Lan Hoang-Thuy - Femme actuelle

Exhibition Catalogue My-Lan Hoang-Thuy. Femme actuelle, presented at the MEP, Paris (18 october - 10 december 2023).

My-Lan Hoang-Thuy’s artistic practice encompasses a variety of forms, blurring the boundaries between different media, using photography as well as painting, drawing, and graphic art in her compositions. Although the works exhibited here all have a similar structure – they are made with acrylic paint, with the artist mixing the colours herself – they do not necessarily follow a predefined hierarchy or blueprint.

In Femme Actuelle, Hoang-Thuy presents a selection of works that include photographic images of her own body produced between 2019 and the present day. She disrupts the distinct perception of the forms of her body by playfully modulating and distorting her anatomy, stretching or shortening it, diversifying her poses, thereby resisting any sense of objectification.

My-Lan Hoang-Thuy graduated in applied arts from École Duperré (2015) and Beaux-arts de Paris (2018). In 2018, she was nominated for the Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts and awarded the Graduate Photography Prize. She has taken part in several group exhibitions, including the Artpress Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne (2020), Cloud Point, Paradis Row, London (2022) and at Christie’s, Paris (2023). In spring 2024, the artist will take up residency at La Maison des arts Yishu 8 in Beijing.