SLQS Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Hoa Dung Clerget: The Trung Sisters, a new contemporary narrative of the construction of the identity of the women from the Vietnamese diaspora. Presented together as an installation in the gallery, a new series of large triptychs of perspex panels painted with nail art materials titled Ornament (The Trung Sisters) is shown alongside Amazing Nails a short musical documentary film. A live performance is also being performed on the opening night. Through this new series of works, Clerget offers an alternative subjectivity, a counter-narrative in which feminine power circulates through gestures, voices, and images.
Hoa Dung Clerget (b. France) lives and works 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 (2021) and a BA Hons in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins (2019). She is the recipient of Jerwood Art New Work Fund (2022) and Finalist of Circa x Dazed Class of 2021.
Recent exhibitions include the solo exhibition Durian Revolution (Studio Chapple, 2023) and the group exhibitions: Myths, Dreams and New Realities (Saatchi/Bagri Foundation, 2025), Only Your Name (SLQS Gallery, 2025), Fringe (Labs Gallery, Bologna, 2025), Porous Abstraction (Alma Pearl, 2025), tươi sống (Harlesden High Street, 2024), Beauty Tech Art Spa (Cornershop, 2023) and Paradise (Harlesden High Street, Lecce, 2022).