Vo Tran Chau

Vo Tran Chau

BornNationalityBased In
1986VietnameseHo Chi Minh City
Biography

Woven into Vo Tran Chau’s practice is the intrinsic emotionality of found fabrics and used clothes, retaining within them ambiguous, yet still pertinent histories. The act of threading together her squares of textile is as though a reconstruction of the stories lost in grand narratives. In her earlier works, Vo Tran Chau navigates various sites with cultural or personal significance, subjecting them to a pixelation that draws attention to the murky waters of history. The images, blurred from view, evade our attempts to see and point to the very nature of memory: hazy, and at times wilfully amnesic. In more recent works, the artist continues to explore the act of remembering, this time with those whose histories overlap her own. Her encounters with Jeju Island – its textile techniques, the personal stories, and the religious practice of Muism – inform her spiritually-charged works, asking further questions of life and death and reincarnation. Through her method of image making, Vo Tran Chau recognises the depth of historical wounds passed down the generations, and stitches them back as a way to heal. ...

Selected Artworks
Green
Vo Tran Chau
Green, 2018
245 x 159cm
Blue
Vo Tran Chau
Blue, 2018
242 x 159.5cm
Leaf Picking in the Ancient Forest - Blue
Vo Tran Chau
Leaf Picking in the Ancient Forest - Blue, 2018
220 x 340cm
Société Cotonnière Du Tonkin
Vo Tran Chau
Société Cotonnière Du Tonkin, 2019
138 x 88cm
It was someone's home - 2
Vo Tran Chau
It was someone's home - 2, 2019
37.5 x 40.2 x 2.7cm
Ba Son
Vo Tran Chau
Ba Son, 2019
120 x 210cm
Once upon the time
Vo Tran Chau
Once upon the time, 2019
153 x 93cm
Where is the end?
Vo Tran Chau
Where is the end?, 2019
94 x 140cm
The soul of trees
Vo Tran Chau
The soul of trees, 2019
94 x 126cm
Where is the beginning?
Vo Tran Chau
Where is the beginning?, 2019
94 x 133cm
Smooth and rough
Vo Tran Chau
Smooth and rough, 2019
95 x 135cm
Saigon Tram
Vo Tran Chau
Saigon Tram, 2019
130 x 218cm
Nha den Cho Quan
Vo Tran Chau
Nha den Cho Quan, 2020
187 x 248cm
A little girl
Vo Tran Chau
A little girl, 2022
111 x 78cm
A teacher
Vo Tran Chau
A teacher, 2022
111 x 78cm
A boy
Tirailleur
Vo Tran Chau
Tirailleur, 2020
122 x 82cm
Coppersmith
Vo Tran Chau
Coppersmith, 2020
117 x 80cm
Interpreter
Vo Tran Chau
Interpreter, 2020
120 x 84cm
Gallery Representation
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