There’s something pleasingly over-the-top in Alex Prager’s photographs. While the subject (a woman crossing the street, a crowded club) often suggests something of street photography, the photographs instantly reveal their own artificiality, so apparent is the staging that went into their creation. Casting characters sporting retro outfits from the 1950s onwards, the slick finish of the photographs are reminiscent of Cindy Sherman in their cinematic quality and tentative blurring of fiction and reality. For her second Hong Kong show at the gallery, the artist is presenting a new series of elaborately staged photographs that go one step further in the exploration and manipulation of the medium’s parameters, using cropping, scaling and layering to an even stronger dramatic effect.