hamsa fae is a Vietnamese-French contemporary artist whose work traverses performance, sound, movement, and social practice on Turtle Island.
With a decade of research in land-based animism, she positions the third gender body as a site for re-matriation and indigenous futurity. Her work focuses on braiding trans identity, digital intimacy, and ecology across internet spaces and ethno-traditional rituals. She invites audiences to participate in her site-specific interventions, archiving memory and presence to confront systems of coloniality.
While the nude body has been depicted in art since the Stone Age, trans-feminine bodies oscillate between erasure and fetishization. In my current research, I ask — What new imaginaries emerge when both ecofeminism and cyberfeminism sit down to pour the tea? Can performance act as a chamber for power-switched voyeurism through a post-human yet shamanic lens? And how might an AI-duplication of my body wield erotic capital to resist forces of extraction?
Her recent works have been exhibited at the AHL Foundation, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Mingei Museum, Bread & Salt, Athenaeum Art Center, and Fronte San Ysidro. Their diasporic poetry collection, Blood Frequency, was shortlisted by C&R Press in 2022. She has publications in diaCritics, Vănguard, Transgender Law Center, and the Yale School of Environment.
