"Hieu Chau compares his dense, dynamic compositions to his always active mind. Playing with scale and proportion, the Vietnamese artist renders surreal scenes in which flora and fauna converge and figures interact with the outside world as if in a dream. Chau, who was trained as a painter, now works digitally, although his pieces capture the grainy textures and gestures of a physical medium."
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Hieu Chau produces dense, dynamic images that mirror an always-active mind. He manipulates scale and proportion to build surreal scenes where plants, animals, and human figures converge and interact as in a dream. Trained in traditional painting, he now works digitally while preserving grainy textures and painterly gestures associated with physical media. A decade-spanning collection of projects has been published as a book, and an archive of works is available on Instagram. The work emphasizes layered detail, shifting scale, and ambiguous interactions that create a sense of dream logic and visual tension.
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