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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  The Michèle Asprey Collection of Australian Contemporary Art
• Sale Date:
  10 Nov 2013 ~ 4pm
• Lot #:
  36
• Lot Description:
  Selina Ou
  (Born 1977)
  Hotel Security, Changchun, China 2003
  chromogenic photograph; edition 1/10
  100cm high x 100cm wide
• Provenance:
  GrantPirrie Gallery, Sydney
• Notes:
  Selina Ou is an Australian photographer based in Melbourne. She was born in Malaysia and grew up in Australia. She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and holds a Bachelor of fine art with Honours. Her early work explored mainly white Australian stereotypes - tram drivers, sales assistants and firemen - while more recent work, such as the 2003 series in Chanchung, China, (from which the two works in the auction come) and her work in Japan, examines similar stereotypes in an Asian context: soldiers, police and athletes. ÒTo come at things visible again, to look at Ou's photographs: what is apparent? There is a familiar documentary aesthetic of course yet there is also a form of social analysis at work. [É] Like Simryn Gill's 2001 series, Dalam, Ou's images reveal how these people live: their things and the arrangement of things; their clothes and ÒdressÓ; their bodies and gestures or ÒcarriageÓ, and the sometimes quite classical compositions that play out through the poses that Ou has captured and re-placed in the scenes. This amounts to an incredibly layered and complex anthropology.Ó Excerpts from Selina Ou Beside Myself 2010 written by Lily Hibberd
• Estimate:
  A$2,500 - 3,500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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