Phung-Tien Phan is born in 1983 in Essen, where she lives and works. She studied at the     Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In her sculptures and videos, Phung-Tien Phan explores the social implications of everyday objects. Her videos reflect a generic Millennial sensibility, exposing how roles play out in public and private, as we carefully curate the cultural references that we surround ourselves with. They « both re-enact and tease the social media image production that has been chaperoned by the neoliberal market economy. If lo-fi music and aesthetics are pastiche of cultures past, then Phan’s works can be seen as pastiches of the pastiche. A plethora of possible narratives – such as diasporic experience, female labour and motherhood, the standardised middle-class lifestyle and late capitalist production – can be found in Phan’s seemingly chaotic blends, though none of them bothers to take centre stage ».