Heman Chong at SAM: Monuments to memory and forgetting

Heman Chong at SAM: Monuments to memory and forgetting

His new show at the Singapore Art Museum is a survey of what we remember – and choose to forget

Here’s Our Top Picks from Heman Chong’s SAM Exhibit!

Though Heman Chong: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness may be a hell of a title to say out loud, boy does it fit this acerbic artist well.  A key figure in Singapore’s art history, Chong epitomises a generation of regional artists who found international acclaim as contemporary artists at the turn of the century and the dawn of our hyper-networked digital age.  His multifaceted artist pr…

Heman Chong at SAM reimagines what a survey show can be - Robb Report Singapore

With over 50 works and six new commissions, Singapore Art Museum presents the first major survey by Heman Chong that is a recalibration of art, memory, and meaning in our endlessly networked world The exhibition title, This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness, is truly a mouthful. You could mistake it as a glitch, or an unfinished thought, or the world’s most self-aware asterisk, and you’d be …