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Selina Ou

   Selina Ou, Magazine Stand, Central Station, Santiago, Chile, 2006-2007, C type photograph

Venue: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, de la Facultad de Artes, de la Universidad de Chile  (MAC).b. 1977 Malaysia. 

Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.

Selina Ou's photographic practice engages with themes of displacement and isolation within the economic structure of daily urban life. Her early work explored white Australian stereotypes, which further led to investigating the worker’s realm in a more general sense. Commercial spaces such as supermarkets, chemists and leisure centres become Ou's playground as they reveal the mechanics of consumer society. Ou's style plays with documentary and anthropological connotations and further reflects the influence of art history on the way we view the world, and its mechanics, communities and economies.                                                                                                        

Ou studied photography at the Victorian College of Arts and over the past five years her work has been selected in a number of national and international group exhibitions. These include Ciudad, PhotoEspana in Madrid 2005, The Australian Show, II Ponte Contemporanea in Rome 2005, Open Letter Gallery 4A, Asialink South East Asia Touring Exhibition 2005-2006, and Three Australian Photographers: Stephen Dupont, Paul Knight and Selino Ou, Canvas International Art in Amsterdam in 2004. In 2003 she was awarded the City of Hobart Art Prize in photography and in 2005 was the recipient of the ANZ Private Bank Emerging Artist Program.

Selina Ou's project in Santiago was supported by the Australia Council