hamsa fae is a Vietnamese-French contemporary artist working across performance, sound, movement, and social practice on Turtle Island.
With a decade of research in shamanic and land-based inquiry, she uses the third gender body as a site for ancestral technologies and indigenous futurity. Their work focuses on the entanglements of identity, intimacy, and ecology while using systems of re-matriation to confront coloniality. Through cyber and site-specific interventions, she edges audiences towards self and environmental remembrance.
While the nude body has been a subject of art since the Stone Age, third-gender bodies remain largely absent, often framed through erasure or commodification. Where can (trans)feminine bodies be archived beyond fetishization? Can performance act as a chamber for power-switched voyeurism and exhibitionism through a post-human yet animist lens? How can eco-transfeminism glamour as erotic capital to challenge forces of such affective 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.
