Ellen Pau: She Moves is the first US survey exhibition of Ellen Pau, one of Hong Kong’s most influential and pioneering artists. Showcasing Pau’s multifaceted artistic practice from the late 1980s to the present, the exhibition features thirteen select video works as well as reimagined versions of Pau’s iconic video installations from the 1990s. The exhibition will be an opportunity for US audiences to experience the breadth of Pau’s artwork, her impactful considerations of image and site, and her deft navigation of social and cultural issues through new and changing media technologies that define the experience of contemporary life today.

A self-taught artist who produced her first Super 8 film in 1984, Pau worked as a radiographer at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital for nearly forty years. This professional background in medical imaging has been pivotal to the development of her visual language. While exploring the aesthetics of abstraction, ambiguity, and subjective experience, Pau has rigorously tested the limits of her medium over the years as the technology of video and digital media developed.