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Ellen Pau’s Elegy to a Vanishing Hong Kong
['Museum Of Contemporary Art Connecticut', 'Uw Neltje Center S Jentel Artist Residency', 'Institute For Contemporary Art', 'Virginia Commonwealth University', 'Mitchell Johnson']
Hyperallergic
Drops of water trickle down a plain white wall under a heavenly light in Ellen Pau’s 1988 video installation “She Moves 她去.”
Ellen Pau: She Moves at SculptureCenter, curated by Freya Chou, is the first United States survey exhibition of the woman widely regarded as Hong Kong’s video art pioneer.
It’s a direct reference to recent protests in Hong Kong, where tear gas deployed by the police against protesters became sensory evidence of state violence and the suppression of civic expression.
In “She Moves,” Vera Lynn’s 1939 wartime anthem “We’ll Meet Again” plays, alluding to recent protests and migration waves in Hong Kong that split families and communities.
It also stated that the chair in Ellen Pau's installation "She Moves" (1988) was once in her home.