Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire Exhibition

You are invited to celebrate the launch of the first UK solo exhibition by Nhu Xuan Hua at Autograph gallery, asking what is communicated - or withheld - across generations.

Nhu Xuan Hua: Of Walking on Fire will span both gallery spaces at our Shoreditch building, featuring newly commissioned work presented for the first time. Working at the intersection of art and fashion photography, Hua reflects on the fragility of memory and the ways stories are communicated - or withheld - across generations. She reimagines archival photographs from her family's time in Vietnam, and their early years in Europe, to create dreamlike digitally-altered compositions that shift between recognition and distortion.

Across her work, Hua builds elaborate visual reconstructions that echo how memory in the diaspora can splinter, blur and slip from view. Born and raised in Paris to immigrant parents who fled to Europe after the war in Vietnam (1955-1975), Hua grew up feeling a palpable distance from her Vietnamese heritage.

Curated by Bindi Vora. Free, booking essential.

Book free tickets: https://autograph.org.uk/events/opening-night-nhu-xuan-hua-of-walking-on-fire