Pompeii, Mount Versuvius Painting

“I find a strange stillness in ancient architecture, abandoned ruins, in surfaces and things that carry the patina of time and wear history on their sleeves. The innocence of a child’s scribbles or cave paintings also fascinate me because of the poetry in their carelessness, the freedom in their honesty – and because this is also where all of us find a common ground: we all came from cavemen and we all had been a child. All of these influences translate on to my creative process, from mimicking the textures of old stone walls to the spontaneous mark making and nonchalant brush strokes. Each work is a meditation on time, chance and accidents.” Born and raised in Vietnam, Ha left home in 2010 to pursue her Bachelor's Degree in the United States. In 2015, upon returning to the Vietnam, she began working as a designer in the residential design industry in Ho Chi Minh city. Having been painting since 5 years old, but it was not until 2019 that she decided to move to France to set up her first studio and paint full-time. Her ongoing exploration with materials, textures and mark-making guided by intuition, poetry and philosophy is a visual response to the interplay between the unconscious and historical narrative.