CHI PHAN

Sculptures with organic forms: earthenware as a living material

Détail de tentacules de la sculpture murale en faïence blanche de Chi Phan, forme organique hybride, sur fond noir. Détail de tentacules de la sculpture murale en faïence blanche de Chi Phan, forme organique hybride, sur fond noir.

BIOGRAPHY

Chi Phan is a French-Vietnamese artist whose career spans continents. Born in France to Vietnamese parents, he grew up in Ivory Coast and Gabon, then lived in Thailand for a few years before returning to Paris. This multifaceted trajectory infuses his work with a nomadic imagination, punctuated by animal forms and masked figures.

For more than twenty years, he has been engaged in an artistic practice traversed by the circulation of forms between France and Asia.


Trained in the wheel technique, Chi Phan quickly moved away from it to explore sculpture and modeling, techniques to which he remains faithful today. His earthenware work is distinguished by an organic vocabulary, sometimes figurative, sometimes dreamlike, where the living is invented and reinvented. Each piece is born from a meticulous formal study—sketches, structural research—before giving way to a part of instinct, particularly in the choice of glazes.


His sculptural series compose a personal mythology where bodies, envelopes, and postures question identity and its metamorphoses. Protective shells, semi-human beings, masked faces: his works evoke in turn birth, disguise, otherness, animality, and silence.

Atelier de l'artiste Chi Phan Atelier de l'artiste Chi Phan

Malleable and fragile, earthenware becomes the ground for an imaginary archaeology — where bodily memory, Asian mythologies, childhood dreams, and collective archetypes converge and overlap. In this sensitive and metamorphic work, the aim is not to represent but to give form to presences. Fragments of figures gaze back at us as much as they invite introspection.


His recent research centers on the mask as a tool for transforming the representation of the human figure in both art and society. A universal object, the mask — this artificial face — is worn between the self and the world. Its dual nature allows it to look outward and inward simultaneously.

It doesn’t simply conceal; it evokes otherness. As a symbol of human flaws or collective masquerade, the mask deceives, protects, liberates, and distorts, revealing while it hides.

| His works |

  • Sculpture murale en faïence blanche de Chi Phan, forme organique hybride avec tentacules, sur fond noir.
  • Détail de tentacules de la sculpture murale en faïence blanche de Chi Phan, forme organique hybride, sur fond noir.
  • Sculpture murale en faïence blanche de l'artiste Chi Phan, représentant une forme organique aquatique. Elle est présentée sur un mur en bois, au dessus d'une console en bois, dans un intérieur élégant et minimaliste.

CHI PHAN 'Tentacules 3', 2025

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Description

Artist : CHI PHAN

Technique : Handmade glazed earthenware wall ceramic

Dimensions : Height 34.5 cm x Width 32 cm, depth 7 cm

Feature : Original work

Authenticity & Signature : This unique piece comes with its certificate of authenticity.

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