Questioning collective and individual memories, Emmanuelle Nhean has been developing for over thirty years an aesthetic combining her Cambodian cultural heritage with Western culture.
Fascinated by Vermeer and Matisse, she tamed light and color, then immersed herself in abstraction and cubism. She then works on the motifs, whether they come from frescoes, mosaics, weaving or embroidery, symbolizing the transmission of know-how, tradition and elegance, crossing the borders between the West and the East. Asia, between his land of origin and his host.
Inspired here by the frescoes of Herculaneum and Pompeii, she revives stories that were almost lost forever, establishing a modest parallel, an unspoken one, about her own history.
With the two paintings called “the village”, between dream and reality, she reveals, delivers, brings back to life memories buried deep in her memory like and the reminiscence of soothing dreams, mirages of landscapes and places of life. Icône de validation par la communauté
