Liên Hoàng-Xuân
« Sometimes it feels like
my heart is a haunted castle
in the desert
in every room there is a man
some are louder than others »
This series of painted and gold-leafed woodcuts is inspired by traditional Romantic poetry, including the Arabic and Persian corpus of Laya and Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi and the Divan of Hafez. Liên Hoàng-Xuân also draws inspiration from modern elegies of Mahmoud Darwish and Jean Genet.
Liên Hoàng-Xuân revisits stories of war, apocalyptic myths, and conspiracy theories, weaving them alongside these more romantically inflected haikus. Through this internplay, the artists explore the emotional and personal destinies of individuals as they become entangled with the invisible force of larger historical dynamics— forces that ultimately surpass and consume them.
Artiste d’origine vietnamienne, tunisienne et française, Liên Hoàng-Xuân est née à Paris en 1995. Multidisciplinaire, ses installations, peintures, gravures et vidéos lui permettent de mêler des souvenirs à un imaginaire amoureux au sein d’une ville fictionnelle, qu’elle nomme le « Sud de Nulle Part » : un entremêlement de Tunis, Saigon et Beyrouth.
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