Nhu Xuan HUA
Nhu Xuan Hua is a french vietnamese photographer and artist based in Paris, working between Paris and London and taking commissions worldwild.
She studied art history and cinema before completing in 2011 the photography course at the Auguste Renoir Technical school in Paris .A year later Nhu Xuan moved to London, where she lived and worked on both national and international commissions for the largest fashion companies such as Dior, Maison Margiela, Kenzo and Gucci. Her imagery portrays narrative and conceptual visuals where photography occasionally meets mixed media. She shapes each component of the photograph, looking at every object as a tangible matter more than a functional tool. She uses her sets to turn her vision into reality, challenging the limit of the space and the bi-dimensionality of the frame that she fills with fragmented compositions.
Nhu Xuan moved back to Paris in 2021 and is exploring a more multidisciplinary story telling practice on the side of her fashion photography work. She is currently presenting her first solo show "Hug of a swan" at Huis Marseille, the Museum for Photography in Amsterdam (NL) as a retrospective mixing fashion and autonomous works from the past 6 years, enlightening her searching process on displacement of memories and Vietnamese heritage.
Her first publication Tropism, Consequences of a displaced Memory is published by Area Books .Based on archival pictures from her family, the digital intervention interprets these memories through a new angle, exploring the effect of dissipation generated by time passing and driven by the forces of an inherited memory.
