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"While he was endeavouring to quench his thirst, another thirst grew upon him." –Ovid

Dupes. Mirror images. Doppelgängers. Sisters. Lovers. Stereotypes. Rivals. These are twofold tropes and foils which implicitly fuel the artist’s process. "Nemesis" seeks to investigate questions around the psychic drive that foments ambivalence for what reminds us of ourselves.

A central diptych by Augustina Wang opens into a scene from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," in which the goddess Nemesis curses Narcissus for being too self-absorbed with his own image to reciprocate …