Wilson Shieh: Mortal Coil

Osage Soho presents Mortal Coil, a solo exhibition by Wilson Shieh.

Preoccupied with pop culture and its different forms of manifestation, Hong Kong artist Wilson Shieh gives us a pause for reflecting on the paradox of contemporary culture. The term "mortal coil" is fitting, for "mortal" is directed at our physical bodies and its characterization, and "coil" conveys an emotional vessel that ...is compressed and requires disentanglement.

Influenced by Chinese gongbi painting technique and known for his meticulous rendering of figure and ground, many have overlooked Shieh's dark humor that functions as a critique of celebrity culture. For this exhibition, Shieh presents three series of drawings as a trajectory to investigate how cultural icons can develop into legends and subsequently historical figures.