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Lam Tung Pang Saan Dung Gei

uring a recent high-speed rail journey from Hong Kong to Beijing, Lam Tung Pang felt a sudden jolt of anxiety as the train passed through a tunnel. Although he knew was still in Hong Kong, he could only see pitch-black through his window, a visual disconnect that brought societal fears over the city’s uncertain political future into sharp relief. This experience informed the artist’s first solo

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