Heman chong biography

Heman Chong's .
Born 1977 in Muar, Malaysia Lives and works in Singapore.
Heman Chong is an artist, curator, and writer who creates texts, objects, installations, and situations in order to investigate the manner through which.

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Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh: Going into this conversation, we are conscious that it will be published in the context of a focus on science fiction. Your work Calendars (2020–2096), made up of 1001 photographs, addresses a long future timeline and is also resolutely grounded in our time. The photographs were taken in Singapore over the course of seven years and we understand that you established a set of rules to guide the work: spaces such as malls, cafeterias, airports, and housing estates were documented at times when they were open to the public but empty of people. If this is a projection of the future, it is pretty bleak. If these calendars are for a future audience, what are they telling people about our time? And if they are a project of a future reality, what can be learned from this cold and un‑fantastical future?

Heman Chong: Since 2000 I had been away from Singapore for long periods of time, but I had more or less decided that I would never leave Singapore permanently. I would be living in another city for two or three months and then I’m back in Singapore, in m

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. He is interested in interrogating the functions of producing narratives in our everyday lives. The artist has developed solo exhibitions at NTU Center for Contemporary Art (Singapore), Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai), South London Gallery (London), Art Sonje Center (Seoul), Gallery Em (Seoul), P! (New York), FOST (Singapore), Michael Janssen (Singapore), The Reading Room (Bangkok), Future Perfect (Singapore), Wilkinson (London), Rossi & Rossi (London / Hong Kong), SOTA Gallery (Singapore), NUS Museum (Singapore), Kunstverein Milano (Milan), Motive Gallery (Amsterdam), Hermes Third Floor (Singapore), Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou), Art In General (New York), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), The Substation (Singapore), Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), Sparwasser HQ (Berlin). His work has also been shown extensively in group exhibitions including Tate Modern, New

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Heman Chong's works are at the intersection of image, performance, situation and writing. The motif of his approach is imagination, interrogation, and sometimes intervention in infrastructure as a vehicle for politics in daily life. In this video works, Heman is interested in the threshold condition between existence and the image of its collapse. Fragility is presented through choosing the subject of his works from the perspective of a person walking.

This long video was made last year, a part of Chong's series entitled "Ambient Walking" on ASMR YouTube channel. Heman walked along Tanglin Halt Green, a public residential complex in Tanglin Halt Road area that was facilitated and subsidized by the Singapore government in the 1970s. This complex will be demolished and rejuvenated in the near future.

Chong walked along all the blocks, streets, corners and alleys that connected one building to another in the complex. Empty, uninhabited rooms that looked gloomy with closed doors, broken windows, deserted corners filled with bushes and peeling walls were recorded by