Mylinh Nguyen

Mylinh Nguyen was born in 1982 in Brittany, France. With a double diploma in arts and crafts (DMA Sculpture métal from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et de Métiers d’Art Olivier de Serres and DMA Textile from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré), she trained with Fred Barnley and specialized in machining copper metals. Putting this singular technique to good use and to the test, she develops series of one-off sculptures and objects. In 2013, she received the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation’s Intelligence of the Hand award, in the exceptional talent category, for the Méduses sculpture series. In 2015, she is a resident at Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto, Japan), where she transforms her practice by cultivating new skills related to modeling. In 2017, she is an Academician for the Fondation Hermès. Her work is represented by galerie 27 Concept.

 

Rome is a city of stone, and Mylinh Nguyen will be working on its cracks. Her project is one of wandering, locating, molding and light repair. Initially, walks will be organized to find cracks in the walls of singular places in Rome. Then, lMylinh Nguyen will cast these traces with natural materials to produce long plaster pictures, enabling her to work on these reproduced cracks. Finally, the aim is to develop ways of repairing, ennobling and enhancing these cracks, which are part of Roman architecture and the passage of time. There’s a nod here to kintsugi (a Japanese technique for repairing cracks and breaks in ceramics using gold lacquer). However, the universe that will be built and the specific techniques that will be invented will be rooted in Franco-Italian culture.