Ellen Pau: She Moves

Ellen Pau presents She Moves.

Why go

Pau co-founded Videotage in 1986 and has shaped Hong Kong's media arts landscape for four decades; this survey spans from the late 1980s to present, addressing political rupture and gender through electronic media with poetic restraint rather than direct commentary.

What to expect

Fourteen video works and installations across the gallery, including LED panels and works from the late 1980s onward. The exhibition traces shifts in Pau's artistic language without linear narrative, engaging sound and image to preserve collective memory around Hong Kong's colonial history and contemporary struggles.

Things to know

• First US survey exhibition of Ellen Pau's work.
• Pau co-founded Videotage, an artist-run collective for new media art, in 1986.
• Pau worked as a radiographer at Queen Mary Hospital for nearly forty years, informing her visual language.
• Her work is held in collections at M+, Centre Pompidou, and Hong Kong Museum of Art.
• Curated by Freya Chou, who organized Pau's 2018 survey at Para Site, Hong Kong.
• Catalog includes a conversation between curator Chou and an AI chatbot trained on Pau's work.

Plan your visit

Open Thursday–Monday, 12pm–6pm. SculptureCenter is located at 44–19 Purves Street, Long Island City. Gallery guide available for download.