Hear the Wind Sing

Bremond Capela is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in France by artist Fran Chang, entitled Hear the Wind Sing. In this new series of silk works, Fran Chang explores deserted, silent, yet inhabited spaces, traversed by invisible forces.

This singular relationship with the world is rooted in Fran Chang’s personal history. Born in Brazil to a Taiwanese immigrant family, the artist draws on this experience of cultural and perceptual displacement as a constant source of creation. For her, seeing differently is not a posture but a condition of existence. She composes her paintings from sensations, fragments of memory, and scattered narratives. Each piece becomes a place of resonance, an attempt to listen to the world in order to better inhabit it.

Hear the Wind Sing originated from an intimate anecdote: a friend telling her how her grandfather used to enjoy listening to the wind in the evenings by the window. This attention to what is present and what is absent became a guiding thread in her work. The wind, at the heart of this exhibition, serves as a subtle metaphor for transformation: it lifts, moves, fertilizes, erases—yet remains completely invisible. The title, borrowed from Haruki Murakami’s first novel, reflects a desire to anchor oneself in simple elements:

“The way we experience time, memory, and everyday loss: life does not unfold in clear answers or defined events, but rather in small, disconnected, often silent moments. Attentive listening — to the world and to oneself — becomes a way of staying present in the face of uncertainty.”

This inquiry takes shape in a painting practice that is both radical and delicate. Fran Chang paints on silk, a material passed down from her mother, a passionate sewer. A symbol of memory and identity, silk is a demanding medium: its extreme fineness allows no room for error — every gesture is final. Pigment flows freely through it, like the wind, weaving refined landscapes often marked by subtle signs: stones, sky, fragments of ice, where silence becomes a language.

“I feel like I’m telling a story, but a story that unfolds slowly, like life itself: without haste, without clear outlines of beginning, middle, or end. At first, when I understood that solitude was essential — not only as a state but as a space to shape who I am — my landscapes reflected that silence. They carried a deliberate austerity: almost nothing, except sand, stones, sky, a few glaciers. It was as if the emptiness gave me exactly what I needed to think.”

With Hear the Wind Sing, Fran Chang presents an exhibition in direct connection with an environment that is both tangible and mysterious. The artist opens the door to a transfigured world — swept by the wind, where each fragment embodies a suspended dream.

Fran Chang (born in 1990 in Poços de Caldas, Brazil, lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil) holds a degree in visual arts. She also completed an academic extension in astrophysics and astronautics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
Her works are part of the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, USA, and the Museu de Arte do Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2020, she received the public award Arte como Respiro from Itaú Cultural.