Hien Cao Art

* VIDEO MA in Art in Creative Practice e xhibition. GMIT College, Galway. click on YouTube to watch the video on the bigger screen

* 'CONFLICTS OF IDENTITIES' Project BIBLIOGRAPHY Hien Cao was born in Vietnam and grew up in Girona, Spain. She moved to Ireland in 2008 and is based in Galway. She is a textile designer/artist with a special interest in political activism. Art, for her, is a medium of communication, to inform and to engage people of matters that affect our daily life like environmental issues, human rights, fair trade, forced child labour, and animal welfare.  As the daughter of refugees and migrants, she tries to understand the meaning of nationalism and why many fight for their country and defend it with pride. Perhaps she belongs to that generation of lost identity where she has no memory of her childhood in her homeland. ARTIST STATEMENT Hien's project, “Conflicts of Identities” consists of pieces of artwork that deal with issues of global humanitarian and social crisis. It analyses the complexity of mixed national and hybrid identities. Forced exile and the migration of people due to

* For Sale Textile handprint panels (20x16 in) Direct Contact with the artist hiencaonguyen@gmail.com or   Instagram Thank you

* Struggling for the land The work ' Struggling for the land, (2021)' is composed of a series of photos of Palestinian hands holding the land they love. The images were expressly taken at my request. The Palestinian struggle has great support from the Independence Catalans and the Irish Republicans. This caught my attention so I asked my classmate Tala (a Palestinian student) if her relatives and friends could email pictures of their hands holding the soil they love, and they would die fighting for. Embroidered by machine, the threads of different shades of brown interpret the earth that they cling to and the red threads recall the lives lost, the blood spilt by the dispute and that inevitably slip through the fingers. A racial struggle that calls into question law and morality, turning those who still consider themselves victims into becoming executioners. January 27 is the International Day of Commemoration of the Holocaust, where mourning and the memory of Nazi terror take

* Self-portrait 5-year-old 'Self-portrait' embroidered by hand with black thread without any certain direction, they come and go at random. The intertwined threads build a perfect tangle, shaping the face of an innocent and naive girl at a time of great change in her life. (Size: 25x35.5x1cm)