Vo Tran Chau (b.1986, Binh Thuan, Vietnam), was born to a family of traditional embroiderers. She chose textiles as the medium for her artistic practice, mostly collected from the city dock where unclaimed cloth and old clothes, from ships from around the world, are discarded. She delves into the social and cultural history of Vietnam to highlight issues surrounding exploitation of women, labor, consumption and waste. The act of piecing together remnants of textiles, imbued with their own personal stories, is Chau’s way of reconstructing stories lost in history. The images are round like a medal, symmetrical like a mirror image.

The artist uses found textiles—discarded clothing sourced from Saigon and Cát Lái shipping docks—to craft mosaic-like, pixelated “paintings”. Each artwork is assembled from hundreds of fabric squares, echoing the fragmented nature of memory and history Woven through her practice is the quiet poetry of textiles imbued with the faded breath of lives once lived. Each thread, each scrap, holds a murmur of the past, a trace of forgotten hands and vanished rooms. In piecing these fragments together, she reassembles what history has left behind—those stories too intimate, too fractured, or too politically inconvenient for the grander archive.
Across her practice, Vo Tran Chau stitches not just images, but psychic wounds—those carried down through generations. Her art is a quiet act of mending, where memory is not merely preserved, but made whole again.

Vo Tran Chau lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City.