20 Club Row, London E2 7EY
Hoa Dung Clerget & Duong Thuy Nguyen are joined by Jelena Sofronijevic for a live recording of EMPIRE LINES Podcast at SLQS Gallery. Centered around the artist works featured in the current exhibition Only Your Name, the conversation will explore themes of migration through the lens of the Vietnamese diaspora, reflecting on what it means to forge an identity as part of a diasporic community in the UK today. Marking fifty years since the end of the Vietnam War, the exhibition explores the extensive reach and deep impact of the British empire on Vietnamese migrant communities.
RSVP is essential due to number of guests limited
This talk will be live recorded and released on the EMPIRE LINES podcast, available on all major streaming platforms
Hoa Dung Clerget is an artist living in London. 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.
Duong Thuy Nguyen is an artist and writer working between Hanoi and London. Her interdisciplinary practice engages with memory, displacement and overlooked histories. Through experimental strategies, she reshapes knowledge production and fosters critical dialogue around colonial legacies, marginalisation, and industrialisation. Nguyen holds a MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, where she was awarded the Maison/0 This Earth Award and the FRESH TAKE 2023 Prize. Her work is also held in the UAL Collection. In 2024, her work was acquired and is in the permanent collection of UAL. She is currently a resident artist at the Museum of the Home as part of the Vietnamese Archives Artist Residency: Library of Ancestral Knowledge.
Jelena Sofronijevic is a producer, curator, writer, and researcher, working at the intersections of cultural history, politics, and the arts. Their independent curatorial projects include Invasion Ecology (2024) and SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries (2025), and they produce EMPIRE LINES, a podcast which uncovers the unexpected flows of empires through art. They are also pursuing a practice-based PhD with Gray’s School of Art, curating exhibitions of Balkan and Yugoslavian/diasporic artists in British art collections.