My-Lan Hoang-Thuy: +1

Semiose Gallery presents an exhibition by My-Lan Hoang-Thuy. The artist develops her own medium from dried acrylic drips, onto which she paints or prints images. By combining multiple techniques and deliberately provoking accidents, she creates spontaneous and imperfect results that resist control.

Her chosen formats recall standard paper while subtly escaping it. Modest in scale, they invite viewers to approach closely and enter an intimate imaginative space. The works bear traces of her family history and reflect a dialogue between Vietnamese aesthetics — colours, materials, curvilinear forms — and Western art history, which informed her training at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her fascination with the late 19th century, and with the Nabis in particular, is evident in the sensibility of her practice.

By merging cultural references and embracing imperfection, Hoang-Thuy’s works explore fragility, memory, and the porous boundaries between media. They encourage active looking, rewarding the viewer with images that unfold gradually and resist definitive interpretation.