Cloth as Land at JMKAC Presents Textiles as a Wellspring of Hmong Indigeneity
about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
“Cloth as Land” at JMKAC Presents Textiles as a Wellspring of Hmong Indigeneity Skip to content Ger Xiong/Ntxawg Xyooj, “I sat closely and watched it crumble and unraveled and crumbled and unraveled and...” (2023), Coca-Cola can and embroidery thread (image courtesy the artist) HMong* indigeneity is complicated by centuries of political conflicts, displacement, erasure, and disorientation in HMong homelands of China and Southeast Asia. Thaum teb chaws tawg (when the land broke), it hid within the designs of paj ntaub (flower cloth). Cloth as Land , currently on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, through June 16, 2024, aims to situate HMong indigeneity within an American terrain.