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24th December 2016
PRESS RELEASE
To Arts and Features Editors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Osage Art Foundation Presents

Other Sides of Evidence

Other Sides of Evidence, 2016, courtesy of the Artist and Osage Gallery

Osage Art Foundation is pleased to announce the exhibition titled “Other Side of Evidence” curated bySolomon Yu, featuring the works of local art practitioners. Artists Lam Siu-wing, Eric Tsang, Solomon Yu andthe art group Archive of the People will present their artworks as a way to explore the relation between
truth and art creation. The exhibition will open on Feb 6, 2017 at Osage Hong Kong and an on-site publicforum will be held on Feb 25, 2017 to engage the public and the artists.

Curatorial Statement
Generally we believe that facts and evidence help establish the ‘what-has-been’, yet they are notaccountable for a truth. The burdens of facts and evidence are in fact multifaceted. In recent years, ‘what isreal’ or ‘what is the truth’ has become a popular enquiry, covering topics ranging from real universal suffrage,
real childhood, mockumentary, reality TV, to realities and truths presented by the algorithm behind social
media and search engine, and lately, Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year 2016, ‘post-truth’. If we see‘evidence’ as data just obtained, then it is worth exploring what else they could answer besides a truth.
While people demand the truth about things and appreciate realness in life, as creative agents we artists
also explore aesthetic truths. We research on our subjects and then make use of the findings to create
fictions, poetry, alternatives, new knowledge, even interventions that simultaneously redress real life. OtherSides of Evidence will present different responses from participating artists to these parallel roles – bearing
responsibility for inquiring and observing reality and the truth, yet exercising our license to make believe andcreate.
Exhibition Fact Sheet
Exhibition Period
Opening Hours

Opening Reception
Public ForumVenue

6th February – 25th February 2017
Mon – Sat: 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
Sun: 2.30 – 6.30 pm
Open to special appointments outside of these times.
Closed on public holidays.
9th February 2017, Wednesday, 5:00 - 9:00 pm
25th February 2017, Saturday, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Osage Hong Kong
4/F, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Venue Sponsor

Osage Art Foundation

Supported byHong Kong Arts Development Council

About the Artists
Lam Siu-wing (CUHK MA Multicultural Studies 2010) is an urban flâneur and an enthusiast of Hong Kong films.
Lam will re-visit and narrate a chapter of his love life, up close and personal. Taking up the last job of his exgirlfriend, he paints a story of an artist trying to trace the year his ex has had, from the work desk she has left
behind to the scribbles on her paperwork.
Eric Tsang (CUHK MA Fine Arts 2014) works in journalism and has been obsessed for years with snapshots oftraffic incidents constantly shared on social media by the public. While going through his downloaded
collection of these images on his phone, he begins to wonder if there is something that links them to his
private life.
Solomon Yu (CUHK MA Fine Arts 2011) is interested in the operation of imagery. Combing through footages ofold TV news reports, he is fascinated by different types of spatial illusion constructed to assist news
presentation. He attempts to deconstruct the spatial arrangement as seen on screen and explores the visuallanguage of the newsroom studio.
Archive of the People is a research and art group that involves different creative practices to address thegovernance on records, legislation of Archives Law and their related politics. Five members of the group will
adopt various approaches to each respond to the operations and systems behind public auctions regularly
held by the government.

About Osage Art Foundation
The Osage Art Foundation was established in 2004 with three main goals - Creative Communities,
Cultural Cooperation and Creative Capacity and has since played an active role in developing education andtraining of young people, broadening cultural awareness and participation in artistic endeavours, nurturing
creativity and critical thinking and fostering international cultural exchange. The Osage Art Foundation is now
widely recognised by the local community and internationally as having initiated many pioneering projects ofinternational calibre.
The current focus of the Osage Art Foundation is on developing deeper discourse in and around the arts in thewider community. We believe that research, analysis, examination and promulgation of issues pertaining tosociety, contemporary culture and value by artists, writers, critics, curators and commentators will build better
understanding of regional perspectives throughout Asia and beyond.
In order to better contextualize the work of the current generation of Asian contemporary artists, the OsageArt Foundation has helped to introduce a number of seminal contemporary Asian masters to the wider
international art world. For example, Roberto Chabet (1937 - 2013) made an unparalleled contribution toPhilippine contemporary art as an educator, mentor, visionary, conceptualist, innovator, alchemist, poet andtireless promoter of younger talents, but until recently was not as well known internationally.
In 2014, Osage Art Foundation co-presented Market Forces | Erasure: From Conceptualism to Abstraction,
curated by Charles Merewether with the City University of Hong Kong, and Just as money is the paper, thegallery is the room, curated by Biljana Ciric. In 2013, OAF presented it’s Me, Goodbye: Andy Warhol’s Cinema,
jointly presented by The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Osage alsopresented the second in its series of non-profit Market Forces exhibitions that draw attention to the noncommercial intrinsic values of art: The Friction of Opposites, which opened in Hong Kong in May 2013,
coinciding with the commercial art fair Art Basel Hong Kong.
In May 2013, The Osage Art Foundation was honoured at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards with anAward for Arts Sponsorship.
For more information, please visit the website www.oaf.cc
Media Enquiries
Solomon Yu | solomon.platformzero@gmail.com | +852 9801 1289
Melody Qin | vesperguo@osagegallery.com | +852 2172 1635

Images from the Starting Point of Each Artist’s ProjectStarting point of Lam Siu-wing’s projectImage courtesy of the Artist and Osage Gallery

Starting point of Eric Tsang’s projectImage courtesy of the Artist and Osage Gallery

Starting point of Solomon Yu’s projectImage courtesy of the Artist and Osage

Starting point of Archive of the People’s projectImage courtesy of the Artist and Osage Gallery