In the painting Pageant, lavishly dressedfigures are immersed in a beauty pageant the artist witnessed, in which HongKong-based Filipina maids competed for the title in an outdoor, urban setting.The poignant and anomalous juxtaposition of fantasy and reality is one which isfamiliar to all those who dream of a different existence. The artist collectsand places their pre-paid sim cards within the painting; these silentrepositories of individual memories are products of their unsettled status.

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