Hien Cao Art

* 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 ...

* Crossing to the other shore 'Crossing to the other shore, (2021)' To understand the structures of society and human behaviour, many authors use the beehive as an anthropological analysis. In "The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us (2004)", Bee Wilson notes that “the beehive has been, in turn, monarchical, oligarchic, aristocratic, constitutional, imperial, republican, absolute, moderate, communist, anarchist and even fascist. However, never democratic.” The piece "Crossing to the other shore, (2021)" is a textile latex structure imitating the perfect geometric shapes of the beehive. The cloth damaged, torn and creasing, it evokes the worn nations, deteriorated by patriarchal laws, conflicts and forced migrations. The choice of latex is due to the similarity of appearance it has with human tissue. Anne Hamlyn pointed out that the clothes are “surrogate skin, a body at one remove." The skin is the largest bodily organ. By using the animal's ski...