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.
