Prune Phi

Phi creates installations made from photographs, drawings, collages, collected documents, texts and videos. She depicts and questions the mechanisms of transmission within families and communities though the spectrum of new technologies and devices for communication. Her research involves collecting materials from the Vietnamese diasporas in France, the USA and Asia in order to explore the common histories and reconstitute the missing parts often distorted by fiction. She observes how traditions evolve in our contemporary world and what roles the younger generations play in preserving their ancestors’ stories.