Durian Fantasy (Green)

Artist: Hoa Dung Clerget and Koa Pham

Title: Durian Fantasy (Green)

Year: 2024

Tecnique: resin, UV gel polish, chrome nail powder

Size: 10 x 10 x 14 cm

Hoa Dung Clerget (France) lives and works in London. She creates installations and objects that delve into the labour of immigrant women, the Nail Art subculture, and the micro-societies found in nail salons. Her work explores the popular and kitschy aesthetic of Nail Art and oriental objects, revealing all the ambiguity present in the gaze, taste, and notion of exoticisation.

Recent solo exhibition: Durian Revolution, Studio Chapple, London (2023). Recent group exhibitions include: Porous Abstraction, Alma Pearl, London (2025); tươi sống, Harlesden High Street, London (2024); A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London (2024); Beauty Tech Art Spa, Cornershop, London (2023), Positions, Alma Pearl, London (2023), The Expanse in-between, Grove Collective, London (2022); Un/Sense, Christie’s, London (2022); Paradise, Harlesden High Street, Lecce, Italy (2022), Mothering, Kupfer Project, London (2022)

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Koa Pham (Vietnam) lives in London and works in the UK and Vietnam . Pham prominently investigates the relationship between objects, humans and spaces, with an emphasis on the potential agency that objects have on humans and how they influence their decision- making. He also works as a production designer.

Solo exhibition: A Melted form leaves stains on surface, Monade Contemporary Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (2024). Recent group exhibitions include: A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London (2024); Means of Production, Lunch Hour Collective, New York (2024), No Place Like Home Part II (A Vietnamese Exhibition), Museum of the Home, London (2023); Paintings Now Redux, Osaka Art Stage, Japan (2023), First Biennial Exhibition, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art, Bally Castle, Ireland (2023), The Foliage IV, Vincom Contemporary Art Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam (2022). Moving images screening includes: Tender Gặp, The Gowanus Studio Space, New York (2024), Stories of the new American-Vietnamese Generation, Goethe Institute Hanoi, Vietnam (2023), Wandering Salon, Untitled x KUAM Film +++ festival, Berlin, Germany (2023).