The Armenian: Simon Birch

NOVEMBER 30 2006-FEBRUARY 10, 2007—HONG KONG—Simon Birch’s new works, entitled “The Armenian” invites the viewers into the question of identity within an international multicultural world.  Birch is of Armenian dissent, born in England and lives and works in Hong Kong.  Like many of us, who are we in this trans-cultural pandemic?  How do we keep pride in our roots and yet establish ourselves in societies that we are just simply attracted to.  How does one both look back and forward at the same time?