Axel HUYNH-PEREZ

Axel Huynh-Perez is a French painter, videographer, and music producer of Vietnamese and Sephardic origin, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2024.

His work focuses on the representation of mental phenomena such as memory, oblivion, dreams, and hallucinations, drawing on his personal history and his family's cultural specificities. He treats family photos as objects of study, capturing moments of life through his paintings and giving the people represented a form of timelessness.

The representation of the deceased becomes an obsession for him, a ritual of memory, a way of paying homage and reactivating remembrance. As a mixed-race person, Axel Huynh-Perez integrates the notion of blending into his work, participating in the emergence of a third culture. For example, he revisits the Vietnamese tradition of the funerary altar, paying homage to members of his family.

His works, whether portraits of the deceased or the living, deconstruct the continuity of time, blurring the boundaries between past and present, between the world of the dead and that of the living.

The wash and glaze techniques he employs reference the degradation of photographic and filmic traces, thus evoking the erasure and forgetting of family and colonial histories.