Featuring
Galerie Bao welcomes you to a Dưỡng Sinh shampoo workshop with artist Hà My Nguyễn, as part of the exhibition Flesh and Leaf, Sap and Seed, on Saturday, April 25 from 2pm.
One body lies down.
Another touches.
Warm water. Plants. Time.
The artist will wash your hair using traditional Vietnamese infusions — bồ kết, pomelo peels, ginger, lemon, lemongrass — releasing scents, warmth, and a form of wordless memory.
These gestures do more than cleanse.
They activate.
The scalp, often neglected, becomes here a sensitive territory: a site where tensions, memories, and rhythms accumulate. Through touch, slowness, and attentive presence, the artist engages in conversation with you — about her practice, her research, and the circulations between body, care, and heritage.
Each session is an encounter.
Practical information:
📍 49 avenue Parmentier, Paris 11th
📅 Saturday, April 25 from 2pm
Individual sessions of 20–25 minutes, followed by hot tea and a guided tour of the exhibition (15 minutes).
An invitation to slow down, to feel, and to let emerge what circulates between hands, plants, and stories.
Workshop
Richie Nath was born twice: once in Yangon, and again in Paris. Since leaving Myanmar in the aftermath of the 2021 coup, he has come to understand what it means to both produce and undo himself. The displacement opened a distance from his mother, one he had not known before, though her presence continues to structure his sense of self.
As the emotional and hierarchical order between mother and son began to fracture, the possibility of self-recognition emerged. His first self-portrait Where Are You?, painted in 2023, does not resolve this rupture but marks its beginning. In this first solo exhibition in Paris, An Oyster Without a Pearl, the artist explores identity, migration, and his complex relationship with his mother through painting drawings and mis-en-scène.