"Quand la mémoire prend forme"
Polaroid emulsion on paper, 29.7 × 42 cm.

Of Vietnamese and Italian descent, my work deals with questions of identity and my Asian origins. This generates a quest for memory, a fragile construction of fragmented narratives whose links and ruptures I seek to understand.

This series of photographs is based on my mother's archives from her return to Vietnam (1992), the country she left as a child. These images are recontextualized and reinterpreted by means of a singular process, Polaroid emulsions (a process in which the gelatinous layer of the photograph is removed with water and transferred to a new support).

With the narrative they evoke, the images become a layer of memory, a materiality that lends weight to the personal narrative. Through the prism of a perpetual redefinition of identity boundaries, this investigation questions what it means to rediscover and deconstruct a culture.

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"Rêver les souvenirs avant de les vivre"
Digital video

This video is an intimate quest that explores my Vietnamese roots, long imagined through my mother's silence. My connection to this part of my heritage came through my mother's photographs of her homeland. These images became a place of projection, of dreams.

The photographs of my first experience in Vietnam and those of my mother, real and palpable, become the anchor of my narrative. They are then animated by artificial intelligence, a tool that, far from reproducing reality, confronts my projections. This movement, this displacement of the image, confuses the real and the imaginary. Here, AI becomes a tool for revisiting memory, but also a space where the reality of images is questioned.

Memories, the imaginary and the artificial meet to give birth to a narrative where past and present intertwine, where truth and fiction mingle. Through the animation of images, I seek to reconstruct and recompose a fragmented heritage.