Le Soleil Tombe Sans Un Bruit, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 12/06/2025 - 07/09/2025

This exhibition is Thao Nguyen Phan’s (1987) first monograph in France. The artist presents a selection of recent or newly produced works (videos, paintings, sculptures), focusing on various historical figures linking France and Vietnam. This is an opportunity to develop a polyphony of views on her country and its history, its past and present ghosts. As a counterpoint, the artist Truơng Cong-Tung (1986) shows two site-specific works.

Thao Nguyen Phan produces a new body of work in connection with the missionary Jacques Dournes (1922-1993), who published numerous works as a theologian and ethnologist specialising in South-East Asia and societies with an oral tradition. The exhibition also features a series of watercolours inspired by the Jesuit priest Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660). One of the first Europeans to travel through Cochinchina and Tonkin, he is famous for being a major contributor for devising the first phonetic and romanised transcription of the Vietnamese language.

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