Su-Mei Tse

ALBION will host young multimedia artist, Su-Mei Tse’s, first solo show in London in the gallery’s new space dedicated to emerging artists. Two definitive video pieces, Yellow Mountain (2004) and the newly commissioned, Mistelpartition (2006), will be the focus of the show. Yellow Mountain, projected onto a vertically hanging screen, like a traditional scroll print, toys with stereotypes of typically eastern idyllic landscapes at sunrise, which is shattered by a sudden and unexpected change of direction. Mistelpartition is a continuous rolling image of a barren forest in winter onto the branches of which cling small balls of mistletoe. In time to the music, the mistletoe is illuminated.

Born in 1973, Su-Mei trained as a classical cellist. Su-Mei’s double training in art and music result in her understated films, paintings and sound installations, which have been compared to haiku poetry for their elegant and spartan imagery. She is interested in relating individual perceptions and viewpoints, established by different cultures, experience, sensibilities and personal references, to one another.

From her film of road sweepers standing in a vast line across the horizon (Les Balayeurs du Desert) to the image of a young woman playing a cello amid an alpine landscape (Echo), Su-Mei Tse finds the sublime in the poetic and the prosaic. In 2003, she represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale and won the Golden Lion award. Since then she has shown in London, Paris and New York. She will be showing her work at PS1 in New York this summer. Born to English and Chinese parents, Su-Mei lives and works in Luxembourg.

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Su-Mei Tse