QAGOMA | Vanghoua Anthony Vue’s art inspired by Hmong heritage @QAGOMA_Australia | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Vanghoua Anthony Vue’s geometric mural and ornate headdress sculptures included in ‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ greet viewers with a cacophony of colour and texture. The artist’s new tape installation 'nkag siab poob siab' 2022, from his ‘Tape-affiti’ series — the title a play on the word graffiti — is an abstract composition spanning more than 17 metres long and 10 metres high, rendered in ‘high-vis’ orange, work-wear blue, reflective silver and black plastic tape sourced from hardware stores. The series is inspired by the artist’s heritage, especially Hmong textiles, stitched by women, whose intricate patterns serve ritual purposes and as political identification and are said to originate in a lost written language. The ‘Hard-hat Devi(l)-(n)ation’ series similarly nods towards the opulent tradition of Hmong headdresses.
DELVE DEEPER: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/vanghoua-anthony-vue-art-inspired-by-hmong-heritage
‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ / Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 4, Gallery 5 (Henry and Amanda Bartlett Gallery) and the Watermall / 13 August 2022 to 22 January 2023
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2022
#captioned #VanghouaAnthonyVue #QAGOMA #hmong #EmbodiedKnowledgeQAG
Vanghoua Anthony Vue’s geometric mural and ornate headdress sculptures included in ‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ greet viewers with a cacophony of colour and texture. The artist’s new tape installation 'nkag siab poob siab' 2022, from his ‘Tape-affiti’ series — the title a play on the word graffiti — is an abstract composition spanning more than 17 metres long and 10 metres high, rendered in ‘high-vis’ orange, work-wear blue, reflective silver and black plastic tape sourced from hardware stores. The series is inspired by the artist’s heritage, especially Hmong textiles, stitched by women, whose intricate patterns serve ritual purposes and as political identification and are said to originate in a lost written language. The ‘Hard-hat Devi(l)-(n)ation’ series similarly nods towards the opulent tradition of Hmong headdresses.
DELVE DEEPER: https://blog.qagoma.qld.gov.au/vanghoua-anthony-vue-art-inspired-by-hmong-heritage
‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art’ / Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 4, Gallery 5 (Henry and Amanda Bartlett Gallery) and the Watermall / 13 August 2022 to 22 January 2023
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Brisbane Australia
© Queensland Art Gallery Board of Trustees, 2022
#captioned #VanghouaAnthonyVue #QAGOMA #hmong #EmbodiedKnowledgeQAG
