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PRESS RELEASE
To Arts and Features Editors
For Immediate Release
26th August, 2014
Osage Gallery presents

INTIMACY, MEDIATED
featuring

Sunday Lai
Eric Tsang
Solomon Yu
Co-curated by Chloe Chu and Yohsuke Ishizuka

Exhibition Period
Opening Hours

5 – 30 September, 2014
Mon – Sat: 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
Sun: 2.30 – 6.30 pm

Opening Reception

5 September, 2014, 7.00 – 9.00 pm

Venue

Osage Hong Kong, 4/F, 20 Hing Yip
Street, Kwun Tong

Intimacy, Mediated is an experimental project featuring works by artists Sunday
Lai, Eric Tsang and Solomon Yu. Modern relationships are now a popular topic ofdiscussion as new means of interaction develop and permeate our everyday
culture. With the growing incorporation of new media into our lifestyle what issupposedly diminished is an organic interaction with our surroundings, as theapplication of these developments become standardized in a mass-produced
environment, mediated by the limitations of the new objects and ideas in themarket. Stemming from the questions of how we create, consume and relate toimages in the digital age and how we position the personal in a consumer
society, Intimacy, Mediated is an attempt to understand and leave an open
question as to the transformations imposed on intimacy and its direction towards
mediation.
Eric Tsang will be presenting a series of hand made cameras, adapted from Ikea
furniture pieces; a project that emerged as a collaboration between the artist –a photographer, and his father – a carpenter. Tsang will be building on themechanisms implemented within his Single and Twin Lens Cameras, continuing toexplore questions of consumption, family and the language of objects.
Sunday Lai takes a playful approach to the modern market and our interaction
with it. In her work “TV Peeking”, Lai intervenes with television screens displayed invarious storefronts with a universal remote, expanding the intimacies associatedwith the home, in terms of objects we construct our daily lives with, now being
restricted by popular ideals.
Solomon Yu’s appropriation of well circulated press photos strike a tone between
sincere and ironic, or in the artist’s words, “ high hope and despair”. Yuchoreographs these images into GIFs, which lend themselves to a repeated, reexperiencing of a particular moment in time, leaving us with a perverse sense of
intimacy with such images and the events they depict.
About the Artists
Sunday Lai lives and works in Hong Kong. She works in a wide range of media,
such as performance, video, installations and painting. She has participated innumerous group exhibitions such as, From 3G to 4G (Karin Weber Gallery, HongKong, 2014), [en]counters 2014: Is There Love in This Air? (Art Oxygen, C&GArtpartment, Mumbai, India, Hong Kong, 2014), Boing! (Osage Gallery, HongKong, 2013) and Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2012
(Macao Museum of Art, Macau, 2012). Her solo exhibition, Selling at the Daily
Rental Shop, was in 2013. Lai has also participated in artist residency programs inIndia and Taiwan. She holds a BA (Hons) degree in Visual Arts from the Baptist
University of Hong Kong.
Eric Tsang graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014 with anMA in Fine Arts, Tsang lives and works as a photographer in Hong Kong. He hasreceived multiple awards in Fine Art and in Photojournalism, including the Osage
Art Award- Best in MA Show, 2014, Chu’s Academic Achievement Award 2014,
The Cactus Prize 2014 and Focus at the Frontline awards from the Hong Kong
Press Photographers Association in 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2012. Tsang’s works havebeen featured in exhibitions such as Allotropy (CUHK MAFA Graduate Exhibition,
Hong Kong, 2014), and HKFOREWORD14 (10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong,2014).
Solomon Yu obtained a BA Fine Arts from RMIT, Australia, and in 2011 received hisMA in Fine Arts from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Solomon is interested inexploring imagery as a medium for thinking and experience. He works withpainting, digital imaging, video, audio and installations to create works in which
viewers are invited as active participants. As an extension to his art practice,
Solomon also collaborates with others and curates research-related art projects.
He was an assistant curator in the curatorial team for Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei(2012) presented by M+, HK’s new museum for visual culture, and he was arecipient of the Grant for Emerging Artists from HK Arts Development Council in2013.
About Osage Gallery
Osage Gallery was established in Hong Kong in 2004 and grew quickly to become one ofAsia’s largest commercial gallery groups. Osage has become well-known in the art world
for its uncompromising support for the most challenging and critically thought-provoking
contemporary art.
Osage Gallery is curatorially driven with a particular focus on contemporary Asian arts. It
aims to be a catalyst for the creative expression of the artists and the active
engagement of audiences by embracing a global, multidisciplinary and diverse
approach to the creation, presentation and interpretation of a diverse network ofpractices and works. It examines the questions that shape and inspire us as individuals,
and our cultures and communities through high quality programmes of research,exhibition and publication.
Osage operates a major space in Hong Kong in the fast developing central business
district of East Kowloon. Osage Hong Kong is in an industrial building, which can beconfigured for a variety of artistic encounters. The raw space allows for the explorationand presentation of experimental and innovative works in all media – including
performance, installation, interactive multimedia and moving images. Osage Hong Kongcombines 10,000 square feet of interior gallery space with 5,000 square feet outdoor
terrace. Osage Shanghai is currently used for an artist residency programme and iscomprised of two floors of space, totalling 10,000 square foot. Sporting a five-meter highceiling, Osage Beijing is a 1,500 square feet space that houses a studio residency
programme.
Osage Gallery has gained wide international recognition for the quality of its
programmes and was the first Hong Kong gallery to be invited to feature at theStatements section of Art Basel, Basel in 2011, the Spotlight section at Frieze Masters inLondon in 2012, Arte Fiera in Bologna, Italy, 2014, Art Cologne in Germany, 2014, and is
one of the first Hong Kong galleries to participate in Moving Image New York, 2014.
Osage has also participated in Art Hong Kong from 2008 – 2012 and at Art Basel, Hong
Kong for 2013 and 2014.
www.osagegallery.com
Media Enquiries:
Chloe Chu: chloechu@osagegallery.com | +852 2172 1619
High res images:
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Eric Tsang
Portrait
2014
positive film
6 x 10 cm
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Eric Tsang
Låda
2014
wood, glass, steel
Dimensions Variable
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Solomon Yu
Tear Cover (still frame)
2014
GIF animation
Dimensions Variable
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Solomon Yu
Puzzle (still frame)
2014
GIF animation
Dimensions Variable
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Sunday Lai
TV Peeking (video still)
2011
video installation
4’20”
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery

Sunday Lai
TV Peeking (video still)
2011
video installation
4’20”
Image courtesy of the artist and Osage Gallery