Liên Hoàng-Xuân is a Franco-Tunisian artist who graduated from the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut (2020) and the Beaux-Arts de Paris (2022). Her protean practice (sculpture, video, engraving, painting, etc.) questions the way in which global and particularly colonial history impacts individual and emotional trajectories. From a geographical imagination that brings together the landscapes of the cities of Tunis, Saigon and Beirut in the same fictional hybrid zone that the artist likes to call the “South of Nowhere”, narrative and figurative devices intertwine. The lyrical register of personal destiny is constantly set against the epic register of the great History that thwarts it, the omnipresent amorous subtext is always stated from an eschatological narrative that encompasses it. The great extra-Western traditions of love poetry are summoned up in her plastic universe in the same way as the superstitious and conspiracy-laden stories gleaned from the internet. Liên Hoàng-Xuân’s work has been exhibited at the Beirut Art Center, the Frac Normandie-Caen, the Grande Halle de la Villette, as well as in galleries in France and at international fairs. Her films have been selected by various institutions (Casa Conti Ange Leccia, Palais d’Iéna, etc.), festivals (Menart fair video programme, Documed-Tunis, Madriff, etc.) and on the Shasha Movies platform of the Habibi collective. She is also co-founder of the former Lebanon-based collective YBM, which organised independent exhibitions in Beirut’s abandoned architectural heritage between 2020 and 2023. After a residency at Villa Belleville in 2023, she will join the 2024-2025 class of the Fiminco Foundation as part of the Résidence-Fabrique programme. In 2026, she will be in residence in Tunis for the production of a solo exhibition.