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Hoa Dung Clerget
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This floor-based sculpture invites the viewer into a suspended, uncanny, and silent time-space. It represents a female figure dressed in an Ao Dai that once belonged to the Artist's mother, worn during community celebrations held by the Vietnamese diaspora in the Paris region.The figure’s face is covered by a mask formed through successive layers of nail UV builder gel like an armor but rendered ethereal through its pearly white colour, evoking something ghostly and immaterial. The body that supports it is undeniably present, grounded in physical form. This piece gives shape to an invisible intensity, that of a worker both idealised and fragile, rendered invisible, caught between cultural projections and the tangible realities of migrant labor.
Hoa Dung Clerget (b. France) lives and works in the UK. Her sculptural and installation-based practice explores the labour, aesthetics and social realities of immigrant women, often through the lens of nail art subculture. Drawing from Homi Bhabha’s concept of the ‘liminal’, Clerget investigates how diasporic identities are shaped in spaces of cultural negotiation and reinvention. Using everyday materials such as gel nail polish, she creates tactile works that blur the boundaries between art, beauty and subculture.
Clerget holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art and a BA Hons in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins.
Her practice has been recognised through awards and residencies, including the Jerwood Arts New Work Fund (2022), the Circa x Dazed Class of 2021 finalist selection, and a residency at Palazzo Monti (2022). Her work has also gained critical attention, with The Times naming her among the “12 Future Stars of the Art World” in 2021.
Recent exhibitions include: solo show Durian Revolution (Studio Chapple, 2023) and group exhibitions: Fringe (LABS Contemporart Art, Italy, 2025); Porous Abstraction (Alma Pearl, 2025), A Landscape of Chance (SLQS Gallery, 2025), tươi sống (Harlesden High Street, 2024), No Place Like Home (Museum of the Home, 2023), Beauty Tech Art Spa (Cornershop, 2023) and Paradise (Harlesden High Street, Lecce, 2022).
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