Le Phi Long
Embracing both global and local preoccupations, Vietnamese artist Le Phi Long´s works aim to initiate conversations about the impact of humans’ lifestyle on our environment while questioning the effects of cultural shifts and collective pressures on the formation of a generation.
Le Phi Long´s works include drawing, site-specific installation, video, and photography. While his drawings originate from archival notes and illustrations, Long´s site-specific works record his native land’s History through landscapes. Indeed he sees human beings and their surrounding as a unified whole – a dynamic, multi-layered and multi-meaningful entity. The artist´s “interventions” – small gestures such as assembling, tying, grabbing, sweeping, removing, arranging textures, serve as methods to examine and uncover History.
With a title referring to the research work of the historian Eric Jenning, the series “Hunting as a metaphor of Political Power” belongs to his project “Đông Dương Lãng Du” (Wandering in Indochina). This project focuses on the history of catholic missionaries and the establishment of Western influence in Vietnam. From the historical and sociological investigation he conducted since 2016 in Dalat, Tay Nguyen, and then France, Long strives for deciphering and translating a piece of Vietnamese History and the components of Vietnamese identity.
By unpacking, connecting and re-interpreting old postcards and illustrations from hunting catalogs and archive pictures, this series focuses on highlighting the French colonial political plans through the metaphor of hunting activities.
Le Phi Long is a visual artist based in Ho Chi Minh and Dalat city, Vietnam. He graduated in interior design at Hue Fine Art University in 2012, then became a member and key organizer of eNAME Art Center in Hanoi. He joined the San Art Laboratory artist residency in Vietnam in 2013 and Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan in 2015. Le Phi Long participated in many other programs including the Asian Highway project in Korea and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.
In 2017-2022, Long co-founded MOIland (Lâm Viên Art project), an arts organization that served as an art space connecting and supporting the local artists in Da Lat city, through exhibitions, seminars, lectures and artist talks.
Le Phi Long works have been exhibited in the UK, USA, Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
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