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LOCATION
Institut Français de Hanoi
15 Thiền Quang, Hai Bà Trưng, Hà Nội
EXHIBITION DATE
01.11 – 30.11.2025
EXHIBITION DATE
04.11.2025 – 18:00
WORKSHOP
14:30 – 17:30
ORGANIZERS
At the threshold of the rainy season in Đà Lạt, where short bursts of rain soak the land and fog drapes the Lâm Đồng hills, Carô Gervay began an exploration that would culminate in A season of revelation . Developed during a spring 2024 residency, this body of work is rooted in a deeply personal response to Métisse blanche, Kim Lefèvre’s 1989 autobiography recounting her memories of growing up as the child of a legally unknown French father and a Vietnamese mother in Indochina and later Vietnam.
Moved by Lefèvre’s desire to articulate, question, and emancipate, Gervay repurposes local ingredients and organic matter to create photographic recipes that explore how landscape and pedagogy can act both as witnesses to, and vessels for, memory, identity, and layered histories. Thus, the work becomes an invitation to trace the blurred boundaries between fact and feeling, past and present, held together by the concerns shared between the artist and Lefèvre.
Set within the Institut Français de Hanoi, A season of revelation is a visual intervention to the space, where questions of identity and belonging are revisited with nuance. The exhibition offers a tranquil yet powerful re-engagement with the legacies and ruptures that shape our understanding of place, self, and history.
ARTIST
Carô Gervay
