Phillips de Pury will hold a sale of Chinese and Indian contemporary art as part of its BRIC auctions at London’s Saatchi Gallery. All the usual suspects are there from Jitish Kallat and Subodh Gupta to Zhang Xiaogang, Yue MinJun and Ai Weiwei. Lots of very, very nice works. I noticed an haunting STPI lithograph and silkscreen by Lin Tian Miao (photo left). She is one of China’s most widely exhibited installation artists and is famous for using of white twine or cotton threads in her works, either wrapping objects in them, or integrating them in 2-dimensional works. For her works at the STPI, Lin reprised her series ‘Focus’, where she’d previously used a close up of her own face, mixing it with threads, but used the photos of 13 different faces of people she knows with various expressions - here a young child. In the very pale photos, the faces have lost all their distinguishing characteristics, appearing almost ghost like. The artist peppered the work with needles, threads, small balls of thread, all of which gave an embossing effect to the final prints.