Gallery Collection

Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present Gallery Collection, a group exhibition featuring eight artists from across the globe: China, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, The Netherlands and U.S.A. These artists are of diverse backgrounds working in a variety of mediums - painting, photography, video and sculpture. Each of them have been important in creating new contexts in contemporary art.

Saskia Olde Wolbers' video "Pareidolia" (2011) was shot inside model sets of a university lecture theatre, an archery hall and various traditional Japanese interiors. The liquid visuals in the video are analogue and handcrafted by dipping living forms, skeletal objects and architectural forms in paint or by submerging them underwater. As these materials and elements collide, the resulting image is one that oscillates between representation and abstraction. The narrative in the background is told from the point of view of a fictional translator between a Japanese archery master, his German apprentice, and the translator's alter ego, a bird.