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Meet the Artist 2026: Đất Vang with Mathilde Granveau and Đàn Đó
Some cultural events are remembered not because they explain a theme, but because they allow people to feel it.
Meet the Artist 2026: Đất Vang - Earth breathes, earth resonates was one of those moments. Hosted by Shilla Monogram Danang on June 25, 2026, the evening brought together sound, painting, craft, hospitality, and Vietnamese cultural memory through a meeting between Đàn Đó and Mathilde Granveau.
Meet the Artist 2026: Đất Vang at Shilla Monogram Danang.
The event was built around one word: earth. Not only as a material, but as a source of roots, memory, belonging, and connection. From there came resonance: the sound that remains, the feeling that continues, and the conversations that begin after the moment has passed.
1/ A Theme Rooted in Earth
Shilla Monogram Danang sits between the modern energy of Da Nang and the cultural depth of Hoi An. This position gives its artistic initiatives a particular meaning. Meet the Artist is not only a programme for presenting work; it is a way for the resort to become a meeting point between guests, local heritage, and contemporary creative voices.
For Đất Vang, that meeting point was built through two very different practices. Đàn Đó brought sound through handmade instruments shaped from bamboo, clay, and ceramic. Mathilde Granveau brought painting through colour, geometry, texture, and memory.
Meet the Artist 2026: Đàn Đó at Shilla Monogram Danang.
The two practices did not illustrate each other. They stood side by side, each keeping its own language, while opening a shared space around material, culture, and human connection.
"Culture is the root and Humanity is the energy."
This phrase, shared by General Manager Karim Meziane, became one of the clearest ways to understand the spirit of the evening. Culture was not treated as decoration. It was treated as a living root, something held in materials, gestures, sounds, and stories.
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2/ Two Artistic Languages, One Shared Root
2.1/ Mathilde Granveau: Painting as a Form of Rooting
Mathilde Granveau's paintings entered the evening in a different way.
As a French contemporary artist living and working in Vietnam, Mathilde often works from the traces a place leaves behind: architecture, textiles, landscapes, craft, colours, and daily gestures. Her paintings do not describe Vietnam directly. They translate impressions into form, rhythm, and balance.
For Meet the Artist 2026, she presented 11 selected works: Prithvi, Mirror, Gaia, Bloom, Fusion, Union, Nomad, Keyrah, Constellation, Within, and Beyond.
Mathilde Granveau presented selected artworks during Meet the Artist 2026: Đất Vang.
Together, these works offered a view into the questions that run through her practice: how to belong while moving, how to carry memory without fixing it, how to build structure while still leaving space for intuition.
This is also why the event connected naturally with her ROOTS collection. ROOTS is about finding a sense of grounding far from where one first began. It speaks of travel, identity, memory, and the slow process of allowing a new place to become part of one's inner landscape.
At this event, Mathilde's paintings became another way of thinking about earth: not soil alone, but the emotional ground that holds experience.
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2.2/ Đàn Đó: Giving Earth a Sound
Đàn Đó gave the evening its first physical presence.
Their instruments are not neutral objects. Bamboo, clay, and ceramic carry the marks of craft, patience, and place. When performed, these materials become rhythm, vibration, silence, and breath.
The strength of Đất Vang came from the space between the two practices.
Đàn Đó worked through vibration, gesture, and handmade instruments. Mathilde worked through paint, tape, colour, and geometric composition. One practice moved through sound. The other moved through image.
But both returned to the same questions. What connects people to a place? What do materials carry? How can culture be shared without becoming fixed or simplified?
Different materials. Different rhythms. One shared root.
Guests moved through the space with these questions around them. A sound could change the way a painting was seen. A painting could give another shape to what had just been heard. This relationship did not need to be explained too much. It happened through the experience itself.
That was the most interesting part of the evening. Đất Vang was not a performance on one side and an exhibition on the other. It was a conversation between two ways of sensing the world.
3/ A Night of Live Sound, Paintings, and Conversations
The evening opened with a sense of curiosity.
Meet the Artist 2026: Mathilde Granveau at Shilla Monogram Danang.
Guests entered the event space and found Mathilde’s paintings already present in the room. Around them, the stage was prepared for Đàn Đó’s performance. The atmosphere was not distant or formal. It felt close, warm, and alive.
Guests arriving, event space, or artworks in the room
People moved slowly through the space. Some paused in front of the paintings. Some looked at the instruments. Others spoke with the artists, took photos, or simply waited for the first sound.
Guests arrived for an evening shaped by sound, painting, and Vietnamese cultural memory.
During the evening, Đàn Đó's performance shifted the atmosphere of the room. Guests were not only watching musicians play; they were listening to material being activated. The sound felt close to the theme of Đất Vang because it came from the earth itself, shaped by hand and brought into motion by people.
Đàn Đó brought the sound of bamboo, clay, and ceramic into the evening.
Alongside the performance, Mathilde presented 11 selected artworks gave the evening a visual rhythm.
Prithvi, Mirror, Gaia, Bloom, Fusion, Union, Nomad, Keyrah, Constellation, Within, and Beyond moved through ideas of earth, reflection, growth, travel, connection, and transformation. Some works felt anchored and architectural. Others felt more open, fluid, and in motion.
Mathilde Granveau presented 11 selected artworks during Meet the Artist 2026: Đất Vang.
Seen together, the paintings showed the tension that often defines Mathilde's work: precision and intuition, structure and freedom, control and release. This tension made them resonate with the live performance, where handmade instruments also moved between discipline and spontaneity.
The paintings became starting points for conversation. Guests asked about Mathilde's process, her use of tape, her relationship with Vietnam, and the way travel, memory, and cultural exchange appear in her work.
The selected artworks created a visual rhythm around earth, movement, memory, and connection.
In that way, Đất Vang became more than a meeting between two artistic practices. It became a meeting between artists, guests, materials, and memories.
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4/ The Works Stayed a Little Longer
Đất Vang continued after the event evening.
From June 26 to July 3, 2026, selected works by Mathilde remained on view in the lobby of Shilla Monogram Danang. The lobby display included Fusion, Union, Keyrah, Constellation, and Within.
This second presentation changed the rhythm of the project. The opening night was shaped by performance, guests, and conversation. The lobby exhibition allowed the works to be encountered more slowly.
Selected works by Mathilde Granveau remained on view in the lobby of Shilla Monogram Danang from June 26 to July 3, 2026.
Hotel guests could pass by the paintings during the day, return to them later, or notice a detail while moving through the resort. In that setting, the works became part of the atmosphere of the hotel, continuing the conversation in a quieter and more personal way.
Selected works by Mathilde Granveau remained on view in the lobby of Shilla Monogram Danang from June 26 to July 3, 2026.
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5/ The Story Continued in the Press
After the event, Đất Vang continued to travel through press coverage and conversation.
Several media outlets highlighted the project, focusing on the way Shilla Monogram Danang brought Vietnamese cultural material into a hospitality experience through art, performance, and storytelling.
This wider attention mattered because it showed that Đất Vang was not only an event for one evening. It became part of a larger conversation about how local culture can be experienced, shared, and reimagined in contemporary spaces.
Read more:
Epicure Vietnam
https://epicurevietnam.com/events-1/vietnam/shilla-monogram-danang-br-where-art-takes-root
Đẹp Magazine
https://dep.com.vn/trien-lam-dat-vang-hanh-trinh-ton-vinh-van-hoa-viet-cua-shilla-monogram-danang/
Travellive
https://vntravellive.com/dat-vang-ban-hoa-ca-cua-van-hoa-viet-tai-shilla-monogram-danang-d40629.html
Báo Văn Hóa
https://baovanhoa.vn/du-lich/dua-van-hoa-ban-dia-tro-thanh-trai-nghiem-du-lich-240258.html
Wow Weekend
https://wowweekend.vn/dat-vang-ban-ban-hoa-ca-cua-van-hoa-viet-tai-shilla-monogram-danang.html
What Remained
By the end of the evening, the idea of Đất Vang had become something people could understand through experience.
For Đàn Đó, earth became sound. Bamboo, clay, and ceramic carried rhythm, memory, and the presence of Vietnamese craft.
For Mathilde Granveau, earth became painting. Colour, geometry, texture, and movement carried traces of travel, roots, cultural exchange, and life in Vietnam.
For the audience, the event offered a way to experience culture through attention: listening closely, looking slowly, asking questions, and sharing a space with others.
Some events end when the evening closes. Others continue because they leave people with a feeling, a question, or a new way of seeing. This event belonged to the second kind.
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