#artistspotlight features an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing.
Artist, Heman Chong’s practice can be read as an imagining, interrogation and sometimes intervention into infrastructure as an everyday medium of politics. His exhibition (a collaboration with the archivist Rene Martin at #jameelartscentre – The Library of Unread Books, traced the perimeters of knowledge and reflected on notions of access, excess and the politics of redistribution.
Scroll down and discover an in-depth view of Chong’s practice through a multitude of writings, artworks, video interviews, conversations and more.
Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. His practice can be read as an imagining, interrogation and sometimes intervention into infrastructure as an everyday medium of politics. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Swiss Institute New York, Art in General, Artsonje Center, Rockbund Art Museum, South London Gallery, Het Nieuw Instituut, Weserburg Museum, amongst many others. He is currently working on a novel, The Book of Drafts, which will be published by Polyparenthesis in 2020.
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