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Heman Chong: The Endless Summer

Heman Chong: The Endless Summer

Heman Chong: The Endless Summer
UCCA Dune – Oct 27 to April 06 2025, Beidaihe (China)

 

Heman Chong’s artistic practice navigates the intricacies of sociopolitical themes by channeling the power of storytelling and everyday objects. He often employs strategies such as staging situations, engaging in acts of writing, participation, and collaboration in his works across different mediums, including visual art, performance, and installation.

The Endless Summer.

In “The Endless Summer,” Chong’s upcoming solo exhibition at UCCA Dune, Chong will transport the viewers to a surreal world on the wintery beach in Northern China, unfolding a story about everyday life in the tropics. The exhibition dwells on this single season, expanding in all directions about heat, humidity, sweat, and the sun. The cavernous spaces of UCCA Dune will play host to a bookshop, a million name cards, 500 postcards, numerous wind chimes and other ideas, objects and situations that point to an imaginary journey around a tiny tropical island. The works in this exhibition will think about collectivity and circulation. It is a story of images, texts, and objects being moved from one place to another. Within the exhibition, everything is in flux. Multiple versions of the exhibition are produced by shifting the objects around constantly via performative gestures that involve the displacement and relocation of these things that are being presented to the audience. This exhibition is curated by UCCA curator Luan Shixuan.

 

Heman Chong: The Endless Summer

Heman Chong: The Endless Summer

Heman Chong: The Endless Summer

UCCA Dune→  Aranya Gold Coast, Beidaihe China

 

 

 

 

 

 

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