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The relationships between the individual and the environment are explored from very different perspectives by Kary Kwok Ka-chi and Eun-Myung Moon.

In I Am Not What I Am, Kwok tries to use the site of the gallery as a metaphor for the artist's body.

A small monitor carries an image of Kwok winking and raising his eyebrows to people walking past the full-length windows of the Fringe Gallery.

Inside, located close to the ground, is a tiny faint video projection of a foot being pricked by a needle.

Kwok has exhibited two different series of photographs. One consists of individual portraits, while the other is a set of diptychs, juxtaposing the artist with sceneries or architecture.

The single photographs challenge the viewers with Asian-Western stereotypes (with a perverse twist) from Bruce Lee, to Chinese Red Guards and gay 'roles' such as a houseboy.

More subtle and rewarding are the diptychs merging the 'body' with an outside environment.

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