Prune Phi

Prune Phi is a visual and performance artist. She was born in Paris in 1991 and grew up in the south of France. She lives and works in Marseille. She is a resident at the Ateliers de la Ville de Marseille (FR).

Prune Phi develops a transdisciplinary installation practice combining photography, collage, sculpture, collected documents, sound, text, and video. She summons what persists, fades, or shifts from one generation to the next: memory lapses, fractured transmissions, and the fictions we construct to fill in the gaps—within families, communities, and their diasporas. She questions our relationship to rituals and traditions shaped by contemporary and emerging technologies, as well as the systems of communication that sustain a connection with those who have become invisible. Through her work, she brings to light mnemonic traces that shape our stories, our gestures, and our ways of belonging.

Her work has been exhibited at the Hessel Museum of Art CCS Bard, the Jeu de Paume Museum, the Carré d’Art de Nîmes, FRAC Île-de-France, the Magasin CNAC, the 66th Salon de Montrouge, the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, the Friche la Belle de Mai, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, La Villette, the Fictions Documentaires Festival, Le 104, and the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.