laura goodwin, bbc news. now, you might be used to seeing art installations and exhibitions in galleries but what about in the middle of a shopping mall? well, good news for residents of hong kong, art basel hong kong is returning to the city for the first time since 2019. the exhibition showcases art from around the asia pacific region and has kicked off with an installation called gravity . it s a ten meter high head bust modelled after king tutankhamun and located right in the heart of the wan chai district of the city. well, to tell us more about the different installations appearing around hong kong, we rejoined now by alexie glass kantor, curator of encounters , at art basel hong kong. thank you forjoining us and tell us a bit about why you chose to go with this installation and weight is such a public space. .
and hugely important for the health of every individual in orkney, and the generations to come. there are other communities within the uk that have a known prevalence of brca gene variants but identifying founder mutations like this is rare. women with the same variation have already been found across the uk and america, which means their roots, most likely, lead back to orkney. laura goodwin, bbc news. links to cancer support charities are available online if you search for bbc action line. there is specific information about the orkney gene variant on the macmillan cancer support website. and if you are from orkney and want to find out more about screening you can do so online via nhs grampian. the cast and crew of the oscar winning short film an irish goodbye have been
of breast and ovarian cancer. and they ve narrowed down the variant to people of orkney islands heritage. more specifically, the gene variant has been traced to the island of westray, with a resident population ofjust under 600 people. 0ur scotland science and innovation correspondent laura goodwin has the story. people have lived here on the island of westray for many thousands of years. in part, the community s deep connection to their roots have helped scientists solve a 25 year medical puzzle an increase in family history of breast cancer first noticed by the screening services in 0rkney. now a team of geneticists have come to the island to communicate their findings face to face. over time, a pattern emerged, that we were starting to come across a gene difference in the gene that was, at that point, we were uncertain of the meaning of, but we kept finding it.