Carré Arrondi
Feet, hands, water
Directed by Hằng Hằng
Performed by Maya De Vulpillières & Hằng Hằng
2025
Carré Arrondi draws from Hằng's experience working in a nail salon and from those of others she has met. Yet it immediately carries us elsewhere—far away, into a timeless, floating world. Perhaps we exist in multiple places at once, drifting between dream, nightmare, and reality, between past, present, and future. Actions and words repeat, looping in a hypnotic rhythm, gradually bending our sense of time.
Gentleness does not preclude violence.
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Unforgotten land
Hair, faux leather fabric
Dimensions variable
2025
The image of two children waiting for their mother. One in a hair salon—hair falling down, piling and crawling, a shrouding landscape—her mother always before her. The other outside a bombed house, the scorched landscape taking shape—her mother never returns.
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Bố không biết mình đang ở đâu
Jacquard Weaving, Alluminium sculpting
2023 - 2025
The audience is drawn into a setting that Hang calls a “garden.” She invites us into a space bathed in blue and silver, filled with strange elements and the earthy scent of rain-soaked soil. Three people, dressed entirely in blue, take turns reciting a poem in Vietnamese, English, and French. Then, Hang slowly pulls numerous drawings, photos, and books from a suitcase. It speaks of untranslatable meanings, of forms that resist explanation.
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Thị
100 years, 3 days, 30 minutes
30’
2025
The film is the last part of “Thị,” a long-term project exploring family history centered around a childhood home in northern Hanoi.
One day, the father decided to demolish the house following the advice of a feng shui consultant. As fragments fall, random conversations emerge, uncovering the connections between father, daughter, and their ancestor.
A century of the house's existence, three days of demolition, and thirty minutes of film. When the house disappears, what will remain of their presence?
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Thị - Early summer
Nhà Sàn Collective
Bát Tràng, 2022
The space invites bodies and perspectives to roam unpremeditated arcs, paced with photoscenic punctuations. The house frame becomes a r ibchamber accommodating one’s innermost experiences, a th eater where some objects are heard and not seen, certain personal stories come into play without being enunciated. Curtain drawn at each step: a p as de deux of f orms and narratives, intimacy and distance, functions and sentiments, the improvised and the choreographed
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Thị - A silent woman
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Hằng Hằng
A visual artist, performance maker, and scenographer working between Vietnam and Europe, she reexamines micro-histories and family narratives through sensual memories. Navigating the terrain between documentary and imagined landscapes, she creates immersive spaces where reality, dreams, and magic converge.
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Dogma Prize 2025
Group exhibition
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
December 2025
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LKK & RKK
Interdisciplinary Residency
Trondheim, Norway3rd November - 31st December 2025
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Laboratoire Aubervilliers
Performance
Aubervillier, France
23rd - 24th October 2025
Organised by Common Stories, MC93, Laboratoire Aubervilliers
Identity constructions are based on and strengthened by stories and experiences. Stories tell who we are and who we strive to become, they question and challenge the way we see ourselves and the others. We, 6 performing art organizations based in Europe, believe that a diversity of stories and a multiplicity of perspectives will allow for a more accurate and fair understanding of the political, cultural and social challenges we have to face in order to create common grounds in European societies in transformation.
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Galerie BAO
Solo exhibition
Paris, France
12th September - 4th October 2025
The reason is a flower
Curated by Lê Thiên Bảo
Galerie Bao is pleased to announce The Reason Is a Dog. The Reason Is a Flower., the first solo exhibition of Vietnamese artist Hằng Hằng, opening to the public on 12 September 2025 as the inaugural show of the gallery’s new location.
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Setouchi Triennale 2025
Group exhibition
Kagawa Museum, Takamatsu, Japan
6th—30th August 2025
Curated by Lê Thuận Uyên
Unfolding within the Kagawa Prefecture Museum, A Choreography in Resonance is a contemporary art exhibition presented as part of the Summer Session of the Setouchi Triennale 2025. The exhibition features newly commissioned artworks - in dialogue with the spatial design of the museum as well as with existing representation of Vietnamese art - by four contemporary Vietnamese artists: Trương Quế Chi, Hằng Hằng, Đỗ Trọng Quý, and Lê Xuân Tiến.
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Kunstencentrum BUDA
ResidencyKortrijk, Belgium
July 2025
Directed performance by Hằng Hằng
Performed by Maya de Vulpillières
Nail salons, emblematic of the Vietnamese diaspora, form an essential niche market, unveiling stories that are both intimate and collective. Carré arrondi is a performance that navigates between reality and dreams, evoking the fragmented memories of Vietnamese-origin nail technicians.
During the residency at BUDA, Hằng Hằng focuses on dramaturgy and direction, exploring repetition in collaboration with performer Maya de Vulpillières.
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Atelier Médicis
Création en cours 9
Residency with children
Paris, France
January - June 2025
Printemps Précoce
Directed by Hằng Hằng
Assisted by Arthur Canac, Hùng Nguyễn
Hằng Hằng continues her work of reexamining micro-history and family archives by sharing her experiences with children at the Macdonald Public Comprehensive School. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she invites the children to participate in sensory and performative workshops where the hand can reflect and the nose can perceive space, while encouraging them to express their thoughts, memories, and to evoke their family history.
These stories reveal our identity while shedding light on and challenging our perception of ourselves and others. The plurality of narratives and perspectives helps us better understand political, social, and cultural issues.
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Studio ARTiculate
Exhibition design
Hanoi, Vietnam
December - March 2025
Bùi Xuân Phái: Âm thầm vang vọng.
Curated by Lê Thuận Uyên
As a scenographer, Hằng Hằng collaborated for the first time with curator Lê Thuận Uyên to create an immersive exhibition on the painter Bùi Xuân Phái.
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DOC Paris
Residency “Arts de la scène”
Paris, France
3rd - 14th February 2025
Directed by Hằng Hằng
Performed by Hoàng Kim Tố Uyên, Phương Dung & Denis Tân-Desir
Nail salons, emblematic of the Vietnamese diaspora, form an essential niche market, unveiling stories that are both intimate and collective. Carré arrondi is a performance that navigates between reality and dreams, evoking the fragmented memories of Vietnamese-origin nail technicians.
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A-Turma
Residency
Porto, Portugal
October - November 2024
Performed by Maya De Vulpillières & Hằng Hằng
Sound Designer: Arthur Canac
Hằng Hằng invites the public to explore her research and performance centered on the Vietnamese national language. The gathering takes place around a pond, crafted by Hằng Hằng from fabric, evoking echoes of time and history. Two women appear at the pond’s edge, engaging in a conversation that weaves together rhythmic sounds and words, blending languages and movements.
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Common Stories
Residency
MC93 (Bobigny) - Riksteatern (Stockholm)
Alkantara (Lisbon) - D-CAF (Egypt)
September - November 2023
Becomming one of the eight Commonlab artists, Hằng Hằng met new people, new ideas, new approaches, worked and shared collectively, as a part of four residency modules in Bobigny(MC93), Stockholm(Riksteatern), Cairo(D-CAF) and Lisbon(Alkantara). ended on November 18 with an Open Studio presentation at Espaço Alkantara in Lisbon.
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