Osage Gallery (Encounters 7) is one of seventeen galleries selected to participate in the first edition of the Encounters Sector, a platform dedicated to showcasing large-scale sculpture and installation works. The section is curated by Yuko Hasegawa, the Chief Curator of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and board member of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.

For Encounters, Osage Gallery will exhibit Hong Kong Intervention (2009), an installation work by Chinese artists, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu.

The work is a series of two hundred photographs in which the artists invited one hundred Filipino domestic helpers to participate. There were two stipulations, firstly they were required to photograph their workspace (the employer’s home) with the inclusion of a toy grenade provided by the artist and secondly, they had to take an “anonymous portrait” of their back in a location of their choice. This was all done without their employer’s knowledge. Both sets of photographs will be displayed alongside each other, articulating the tension between intimacy and estrangement, anonymity and incursion.

Image: © Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Osage Gallery