“Today didn’t happen yet,” by Prune Phi
“Today didn’t happen yet,” a project by Prune Phi uncovers the ambiguity of identities in young generations today that comes from how long generational traditions evolve with the influence of new technologies.
Prune Phi is an artist based in France. After completing the Contemporary Curatorial Practice, Fine Art and Art theory program at the Université Le Mirail and the Birmingham Institute of Arts and Design, she went on and got her master from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles in 2018. She has been making round trips to Vietnam for her new interdisciplinary project.
“This project is a continuation of a long term research project that I have been pursuing on my origins, which brought me, over the past few years, to work alongside the Vietnamese communities in the USA as well as in France.” Her work that’s shared here is the collages portion, titled ‘Hang Up!’ emphasising the disconnection, at the same time fragments that are interconnected between generations; creating tension between different realities. All the photographs are taken in Vietnam during her first trip there in early 2019. “Once my photographs are digitalised, I zoom into them and select fragments of bodies, faces and details which are then printed at a local shop. This gathered material is then cut, torn and composed on paper.”
Her work captures youth generation attempted self expression, which are in some ways boxed in by the culture and traditions.
