Page Tsou

Page Tsou
Visual Artist Page Tsou First Solo Exhibition in Barbershop

Exhibition:	The And
Artist:	Page Tsou
Curator:	Page Tsou, Chia-Hua, Chiang
Time:	09/12/2010 -01/20/2011
Location:	BadLambs & Sons (Map)
(37 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3NG)

Situated at a barber shop where the back view of the heads is the main visual point of both the barbers and the viewers, Page Tsou’s multimedia installation invites the viewers to contemplate on the poetics between the subject and the object, presence and absence.

Between presence and absence, there is The And.

After drawing three thousand front head portraits, Page started to be intrigued by the idea of using rear heads as visual focal points. The rear head view, signaling a reverse of subjective view, mirrors the double-ended thinking as the exhibition theme. On one hand, The And puns on the “end” as the perspectives of the barbers and the perceptual objectification of the subject. On the other, by replacing the “End” with the linking word, “And” , Tsou invites the viewers to think outside the narrative frames of the subjective view and contemplate on what is presented and what is not presented in defining truth.

As part of Page’s Londoners series, The And is Page Tsou’s first solo exhibition in London. Page’s illustrations won the first prize at the Man Group Drawing Awards in RCA and exhibited widely around the world, including Bologna Annual Illustration Exhibition and the Biennial Printmaking Exhibition at The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. His works have been collected by Lady Conran, the CEO of Yamaha Design Centre (UK) and the art director of Sony PlayStation. Highly appreciated by master artists like Quentin Blake and Alain de Button, Page had won their consent to use their rear head views in his works. (Written by Yahuei Yang)

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Page Tsou is an artist based in London, originally from Taiwan. He has recently completed an MA in Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art, London.