Prune Phi

Born in 1991, Prune Phi is a French artist who lives and works in Marseille. After studying Fine Arts and completing a Master’s degree in Artistic Creation, Theory and Mediation, she completed a one-year residency at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in the UK. She then joined the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles, from which she graduated in 2018. Resident of the 1^st promotion of Artagon Marseille (2021-2022), she took part in the 66^th Salon de Montrouge in 2022. Her work has been presented in several collective exhibitions, including at Magasin CNAC (Grenoble), art-cade* Marseille Galerie des Grands Bains Douches, the Minnesota Museum of American Art (Saint Paul, USA), the FOG Gallery (Bratislava) and the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Hanoi). She also participated in duo and solo exhibitions at Reflet Machine (Paris), Friche la Belle de Mai (Marseille) and Floréal Belleville (Paris). For several years now, Prune Phi has been developing a multi-faceted approach to performance and installation, using personal photographs, drawings, collages, sculptures, sounds, texts, videos and collected documents to explore the mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of bodies and memories, and to question her Vietnamese roots.