Page Tsou’s first solo exhibition opened last week at Badlambs & Sons Barbershop.Curated by Page Tsou, Chia-hua, Chiang.
In London’s smallest barbershop lays Page Tsou’s exploration of the rear view.
With 30 excellently crafted pencil drawings of the back of people’s heads, the installation invites the viewer to “contemplate on the poetics between the subject and the object, presence and absence.”
From an almost unfriendly subject matter, the curators, wearing barber shop jackets, welcome you with the amount of warmth you need on the cold winters day.
Which is very ironic, as the title of the song from the accompanying video installation by Juriaan Booij sings, You Don’t Know Me, you are asked the question, how friendly are we?
Tsou, originally from Taiwan, on completing his Masters in Communication Art & Design (RCA) wanted to explore this question & his assumptions of London culture by photographing thousands of individual’s (back of) heads.
Definitely worth a visit, Page Tsou’s show continues until 20th January, you’ll be left wishing the back of your head was on the wall next to Mickey Mouse.
