Tcheu Siong (1968) is a self-taught Laos artist with a prolific textile practice in hand stitched embroidery and reverse appliqué. While such techniques have been integral to Hmong culture for centuries, Tchue’s compositions and iconography depart from Hmong traditions of geometric abstraction, favoring organic and bold figurative motifs that foreground a field of white.
While differentiated, her works retain Hmong designs’ symbolic function to express identity and culture through a visual language within an oral culture. Tcheu’s process involves both receiving images in her dreams as well as creating her own designs in order to design and plot the infinite characters populating the Hmong spirit world.
While at times her complete compositions narrate specific oral histories, at other times Tcheu welcomes multiple readings of her work. In the artist giving presence to the unseen, she in turn gives agency to the active and complex role of spirits in everyday life, such as those for fertility or good health, to those who invoke punishment for harming the land, to elder spirits who train adolescent ones how to govern fairly.
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| Ms. Tcheu Siong |
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| Ms. Tcheu Siong at work |
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| Chao and the Three Spirits, 2009 detail |
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| Chao and the Three Spirits, 2009 detail |
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| Chao and the Three Spirits, 2009 detail |
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| Chao and the Three Spirits, 2009 detail |
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| Yawm Saub Chao-Chao and the Three Spirits, 2009 |
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| Horn spirit in Big Forest, 2012 |
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| Tree Spirit, 2012 |
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| Grand Father Chou, 2014 |
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| Mother Earth, 2014 |
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| Three Hmong Protectors, 2014 |
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| Two Leaders of Yellow Person, 2014 |
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| 2016 Spirit of Sky and Earth, 2016 |
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| 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 II, 2016 |
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| Grand Parent, 2017 |
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| History, 2017 |
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| Panel, 2017 |
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| Black wolf spirit, 2017-18 |
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| Chong Xoua, 2017-18 |
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| Ice spirit, 2017-18 |
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| Me nyuam dab nriag, 2018 |
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| Hmong's wearing bracelet 1, 2019 |
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| The German Embassy, 2020 |
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| The soul judge (middle) and the leaf spirits (left and right), 2020 |
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| Notes from Lived Spaces, 2021 |
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