Exhibition dates: August 8-September 23, 2006Opening reception: September 7, 2006 from 6-8pm

Zach Feuer, 28, has reopened with a spunky video and photography show by Stuart Hawkins.
Stuart Hawkins is a woman. She shuttles between New York and Nepal and bases her tongue-in-cheek work on how Western culture penetrates and collides with that of South Asia.

In her video, which is projected onto a wall in the main space, Hawkins casts herself as a tourist searching for what the gallery calls an ``anthropologically perfect native.'' She spots a candidate in a bar -- sporting sunglasses and a red-hooded tracksuit.

In hot pursuit, she does some striptease, traditional dancing and takes part in a nearly lethal car chase. Eventually, her target's resistance dwindles, and so does his size: He shrinks from a full-grown man to a child, then to a doll and finally to a patch of hair and a feather. Hawkins duly frames these traces and hangs the tableau on a wall.

In staged photographs, the artist also injects herself into the ``native'' scene in various awkward ways (in one photo, she's being hauled in a basket). That her subjects keep going about their daily business highlights the absurdity.
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