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ELVIS YIP KIN BON

For almost ten years, Hong Kong artist Elvis Yip Kin Bon has obsessively collected newspaper cuttings of the city’s police force arresting criminal suspects, then carefully removed any extraneous text and actors (2014–23), which was recently included in his solo exhibition “Overriding the Light of Day” (2023) at the Hong Kong nonprofit WMA Space.

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