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Press Release
Attention Arts and Features Editors

20/09/11
For immediate release

Untitled/Again (Marienbad)
08.10.2011 – 11.11.2011
Reception: 07.10.2011, 6.00pm to 8.00pm
Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong
Artist: Yason BANAL
Curator: Isabel CHING

Untitled/Again (Marienbad) is a performance-installation inspired by seriality, black swansand Alain Robert-Grillet and Alain
Resnais' brilliantly cold classic "Last
Year at Marienbad". This seminal pieceof modern cinema is legendary for its
self-contained yet ambiguous narrative
structure in which memory and mores
are subject to doubt – and events,
locations and personas remain repetitive
yet mutable and oblique. Artist Yason
Banal forms a contemporary
constellation around etiquette,entrapment and ennui by transporting
Marienbad to different cities, inhabitedby human figurines, sculptural garments
and gallery artifacts.

The serial has been exhibited and performed at Osage Gallery in Hong Kong and Singapore, Jakarta
Biennale, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, IFA Stuttgart and Berlin, Courtauld Institute of Art and theTate Modern – traversing geographies, identities, contexts and media, almost always returning toMarienbad.

-ENDABOUT UNTITLED/AGAIN (MARIENBAD)
Artist:Yason BANAL

Curator:

Isabel CHING

Venue:

Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong

Address:

5/F, Kian Dai Industrial Building, 73-75 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong,
Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tel:(852) 2793 4817

Exhibition Duration:

8 October – 11 November 2011

Reception:

7 October 2011 (Friday), 6.00pm - 8.00pm

APPENDIX A: ABOUT THE ARTIST
Yason Banal's work moves between performance, installation, photography, video and text, taking
myriad forms and conceptual strategies in order to explore, perhaps even trigger, suppressed
associations and links. He obtained a BA in Film at the University of the Philippines, an MFA in Fine
Art at Goldsmiths College-University of London, residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam andAIT in Tokyo, and visiting lectureships at London Metropolitan University and Tokyo National
University of Fine Art and Music. His works have been exhibited at Tate Modern, Frieze Art Fair, IFA
Berlin, Courtauld Institute of Art, Jakarta Biennale, Guangzhou Triennale, Yerba Buena Center for theArts, Art Cologne, Singapore Biennale, Oslo Kunsthall and Lopez Museum.

APPENDIX B: PRESS IMAGESABOUT OSAGE GALLERYOsage Gallery is devoted to the exhibition and promotion of international and Asian contemporary
visual arts, exploring the diverse and complex artistic relationships between the different regions ofAsia, and beyond that, of the artistic relationships between Asia and other parts of the world. Osage
Gallery represents some of the most exciting and significant artists in the region. The gallery also
works closely with international critics and curators to present exhibitions and projects that addressthemes and issues relevant to our times.
In addition to organising major group and thematic exhibitions, Osage Gallery has organised solo
exhibitions by some of the most significant artists in Asia, such as Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, Shen
Shaomin and Jiang Zhi from China, as well as other Asian artists such as Lee Kit (Hong Kong),
Wilson Shieh (Hong Kong), Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand) and Ho Tzu Nyen (Singapore).
Osage Gallery is part of the Osage Group www.osageartideas.com encompassing the Osage Art
Foundation, Osage Art Consultancy and Osage Design.
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