Explore the emotional landscape of exile through the drawings of French-Vietnamese artist Clément Baloup,
taken from his acclaimed graphic novel series Mémoires de Viet Kieu. This exhibition brings together powerful testimonies of the
Vietnamese diaspora—stories of loss, identity, memory, and resilience—told through vibrant visuals, personal voices, and the quiet poetry of
food, colour, and everyday life.
Divided into three immersive sections—Words, Food, and Shapes & Colours—the exhibition invites visitors to reflect on how people uprooted by war and history reconnect with their homeland through language, cuisine, and emotion. At once intimate and universal, Colours of Exile gives form to memories often left unspoken.
Exhibition Opening Hours
This exhibition will run from 13 May - 13 June 2025.
Exhibition Launch
About the artist
Clément Baloup was born in 1978 to a French mother and a Vietnamese father. He was raised in Europe, Polynesia and South America as his
father was working in different places. Today he lives in Marseille, France.
Clément entered Angoulême’s prestigious Beaux-Arts Sequential Arts Program in 1997 and spent the next five years enriching both his
perception and practice of sequential storytelling. In 2000, together with a group of artist friends, he created an anthology comics zine
titled La Maison Qui Pue (or The Stinking House in English), where he would get to publish his first pages of comic art.
Clément has gone on to become a versatile creator: besides his more personal graphic novels (the Mémoires de Viet Kieu series)
which he both wrote and drew, he has also written stories in many genres and illustrated by other artists, such as The Suicide Club
with Eddy Vaccaro.
Clément has been awarded several prizes, but the most prestigious was the Jury’s Choice Prize at the 2011 Angoulême International Comics Festival for Vietnamese Memories Book 1: Leaving Saigon.
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His original artwork has been shown in several countries and he has led workshops about graphic novels in France, the United States,
Australia, Taiwan, Singapore, Macao, Indonesia and Vietnam. These workshops have often been supported by local French cultural institutions.
Instagram: @clementbaloup
Facebook: Clément Baloup (Hùynh Ânh)