In the project .cóm, Prune Phi creates a fiction whose love story begins in the rice fields of Camargue. She takes as her starting point the history of the forced laborers from Indochina during World War II, the rice field ecosystem, and her personal memories of “La Rizière,” the restaurant run by the artist’s grandfather.

The installation combines kitchen furniture, composite images, and glass. With the glass artisans of the Fondation, she created the glass sculpture related to the project. This piece echoes and deconstructs the visual mechanisms of sake glasses – a rice alcohol – to reinterpret them in a Western context. Lens modules disturb, reveal, or conceal the image at the heart of the work through optical effects.

Her project is presented as part of the collective exhibition of the Jeu de Paume festival “Moving Landscapes” (February 7 – March 23, 2025). The exhibition, curated by Jeanne Mercier with the collaboration of screenwriter Loo Hui Phang, explores representations of natural environments and the associated imaginations.

Prune Phi is a visual artist. Following studies in Visual Arts and a Master’s in Artistic Creation, Theory, and Mediation, she completed a one-year residency at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design in the United Kingdom before joining the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, from which she graduated in 2018. She has notably exhibited at the Mediterranean Center of Image, at SiFest Off in Italy, and during the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles.