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Press Release

11 July 2011
For immediate release

Attention Arts and Features Editors

SLIPPING TRANSMISSION
16.07.2011 – 14.08.2011
Artists: Felix Bacolor, Yan Shan Chun, Wah Nu, Tozer Pak, Shirley Tse
Curators: Arianna Gellini and Sonja Ng

Osage Soho is pleased to present group exhibition Slipping Transmission.
Through the works of Felix Bacolor, Yan Shan Chun, Wah Nu, Tozer Pak and Shirley Tse, group exhibition
Slipping Transmission traces and magnifies the evasive and implicit line that slips in between performing
states and still moments of the everyday life. With the aid of photography, video, painting, and sculpturalobjects, the exhibition at the same time aims to explore the imperfections of these mediums in preserving
and recording the slippage of time.

Photography and all the other medium of representation
can be considered to be a record that witnesses thepassage of a living experience into a static andimprinted memory of a past and lived one. Nonethelessbeing a pure record, they fail in preserving that
performative element. What was once a choreographed
performance is now a mere static and passive “image”.
The “images” shown in Slipping Transmission thus are
not only canonical photographs, paintings or videos,U

Shirley Tse, Waiting at the Place Where America Parts from
Eurasia Series no. 1348, 2005, Color photograph, handmade frame, 35.5cm x 35.5cm

but also objects and structural entities. These images are a tentative representation of an experience, aleap of time that was framed and encapsulated into a passive stillness.
Almost on the verge to disrupt the inertia of the "image", the artworks in Slipping Transmission allude toan ever present feeling of incompleteness. Different in composition and subject matter, each one of theseartworks have within themselves an element that disturbs the inertia of the image. Be it a bench as inShirley Tse’s “Waiting at the Place Where America Parts from Eurasia Series No. 1393”or the horizon line
in Yan Shan Chun’s “Su Causeway”, these factors epitomize the tension/friction between the movementand action that the image alludes to and the stillness of the image itself. They serve as spectacles that not
only encapsulate the dualistic nature of the transmission between action into thoughts , presence andabsence, but also question the incomplete and imperfect imposition that arises from the crystallization ofan event from a fluid form into a still image.

--END—ABOUT SLIPPING TRANSMISSION
Artists:

Felix Bacolor, Yan Shan Chun, Wah Nu, Tozer Pak, Shirley TseCurators:

Arianna GELLINI and Sonja NG

Venue:

Osage Gallery, Soho

Address:

45 Caine Road, Lower Ground Shop 1, Cnr Old Bailey St, Soho
Central, Hong Kong

Tel:(852) 2793 4817

Exhibition Duration:

16 July 2011 to 14 August 2011

Opening Reception:

15 July 2011 (Friday), 6.00pm[ENCL.]
APPENDIX A: ABOUT THE ARTISTS
APPENDIX B: ARTWORK IMAGESAPPENDIX A: ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Felix Bacolor (b. 1967, Philippines)
Felix Bacolor's experience in the arts range from commercial to expressive. Having worked for T
commercial production, a television station, design companies here and abroad, his broad range ofknowledge gives depth and meaning to his artworks. Bacolor graduated from the UP College of Fine Arts
with a BFA in Painting in 1989. A Filipino native, many of his exhibitions, such as Stormy Weather (2010),Once Upon a Time & Other Stories (2009) and Interior Motives (2009), are displayed in his mothercountry.

Yan Shan Chun (b. 1957, China)
Yan Shan Chun graduated with his B.A. from Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in 1983 and began teachingat Hubei Fine Art Institute. He is currently deputy director and a first class artist of Shenzhen Fine Art
Institute and the curator of Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale. His exhibitions include:Searching for West Lake in My Dreams: Yan Shanchun 2004 Paper Paintings (2005, Hanart TZ Gallery,Hong Kong), “West Lake” Series (2006, Contemporary Ink Painting Methods, Tianjin, China), YanShanchun Exhibition (2006, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China).

Wah Nu (b. 1977, Myanmar)
Wah Nu’s videos display a keen sensitivity to observations of nature and existence. Although artistic innature, her work has strong documentary qualities. Recent exhibitions include The Rising Sun (2008 ArtU room, Tokyo), Cloud Department (2004 Lokanat Art Galleries, Yangon, Myanmar) and Artistiquement
Femmes (2008 Alliance Française de Rangoun, Yangon, Myanmar).

Tozer Pak (b. 1977, China)
Tozer Pak graduated in 2002 from the Hong Kong Chinese University. Pak is a conceptual andperformance artist who is well known as a regular visual art columnist in a local newspaper Mingpao. Hewas awarded an Overseas Exchange Prize (Chinese Performance Art) from Macao Museum of Art in2005 and won the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship in 2006 from Asian Cultural Council supporting himto work in New York. In 2009 he represented Hong Kong at the Venice Biennale. Recent exhibitions
include Points of Ellipsis… ( 2011 Osage Gallery, Hong Kong) All Days(s) All Night(s) (2009 Vitamin
Creative Space, Guangzhou, China), Charming Experience (2009 Hong Kong Museum of Art) and Artystaz Hong Kong (2006 WAA Art Space, Warsaw Poland).

Shirley Tse (b. 1968, Hong Kong)
Shirley Tse’s sculptures, installation and photographs have been included in numerous museum
exhibitions worldwide, among them are Waiting (2007 Murray Guy, New York, NY), Not Biodegradable(Whitespace, Atlanta, GA) and Rebus (2009 Museo Archeologico di Amelia, Italy). She has been a visiting
artist at Yale School of Art, Vermont College, Claremont Graduate Univeristy, California College of the Arts
and Northwestern University. She recently received a Guggenheim Fellowship Award for 2009/10 and aC.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship.

APPENDIX B: ARTWORK IMAGES

Felix Bacolor, I Didn’t Know What I was Doing, But I’m Glad That It was Done, 2010, Installation

Yan Shan Chun, Su Causeway, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 3 panels 179cmx119cm

Tozer Pak, Two Rainwater Pools, 2006, C-Print, 4 panels 90cm X 120cm, 90cm X 120cm, 40cm X 60cm, 40cm X 60cmWah Nu, Lives look like Light, 2004, Single Channel Video: DVD, color, silence, 27 mins 10 secs

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