Terence Koh’s Asia Song Society is pleased we to present completely first USA presentation of Shanghai based artist Mother Teresa (Bao Xei). Born 1981 in Shanghai, China, artist Bao Xei has for america debut adopt the pseudoynm Mother Teresa for his show “The Ectasy of Bao Xei”.
The title for Xei is for him the play on the words the drug ectasy that he loves to take while going out to nightclubs in shanghai and the state of Ectasy one achieves in the belief of a Christianity God. Mother Teresa is for Xei the most significant and innocent belief of this ectastic state of religion.
For his exhibition at the ASS gallery, Xei wants to present a sculpture and performance that is at once mystery but the same time very dynamic. He has employed a wrapped sculpture of Mother Teresa on top of a white piano and asked two friend of the gallery to play on the piano. Music for him then is closer to religion. And Ectasy will help. Xei wants to show that in playing music we can all acheive Ectastic Holiness of Mother Teresa.
