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Not Today Maybe Tomorrow My new tote bag I made for @rohprojects, appropriated from a sentence once said to me and a bunch of friends in Berlin by a bouncer to a club who deemed us too drunk to enter. #NotTodayMaybeTomorrow #Totebag #ROHProjects #Jakarta #Indonesia (at ROH) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl8V1chLjY3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
This space is fast becoming one of my top favourites to work with. There’s so much empathy. So much detritus from the previous occupants woven into our shared present. #ROHProjects #Jakarta #Indonesia (at ROH Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl27saIr5-s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A big shout out to all the art handlers who help move our work around the world! Thank you @helutrans_artmove! #HemanChong #ROHProjects #STPIGallery #arthandlers #arthandler #helutrans (at ROH Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/Clx7ojprOak/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
NOT TODAY MAYBE TOMORROW #HemanChong #RohProjects (at ROH Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClDTyxBLa0u/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
My solo show @rohprojects in #Jakarta opens in exactly a month on 10 December 2022. I’ll be giving a small talk about my practice at 4 pm! Come! #HemanChong #ROHprojects #STPI #LibrariesLabyrinths #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia (at ROH Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkyDFbnLSip/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Thank you @rohprojects for showing my work alongside other amazing artists @artjakarta! Looking forward to installing my show with you in December! It’ll be awesome! Exciting! #HemanChong #ROHprojects #STPIgallery #ArtJakarta #Jakarta #Indonesia #Bookstagram #Books #BookCovers #FightClub #ChuckPalahnluk #StraightIsTheGate #AndreGide #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #WelcomeToTheNHK #TatsuhikoTakimoto #TheIslandOfTheDaybefore #UmbertoEco #LetTheRightOneIn #JohnAjvideLindqvist #CoverVersions #booksbooksbooks #booklover #bookdesign #booknerd #bookaddict #bookpainting #booklove (at Art Jakarta) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChuXwtarUMB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I’ve been working on this new series of paintings that thinks about the spaces between books as passages that can be navigated as if one is attempting to read the library as a landscape of multiple, conflicting ideas. I’m surprised how much the negative spaces in these paintings resemble spines of books on shelves. The title of the series is ‘Labyrinths (Libraries)’ and I’ll be showing the first of these with @rohprojects later this year in December. Enjoying my time making these! So pleasurable! #HemanChong #LabyrinthsLibraries #RohProjects #Jakarta #Indonesia #Libraries #Library #libariesofinstagram #librariesmatter #librariesofig #bookshelf #bookshelvesofinstagram #books #book #bookstagram #booklover #booknerd #bookpainting #booksonbooks (at ROH Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chbcz2YlsG_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
I love spending time at the @metmuseum. I would often spend an entire day in it, just walking and allowing every object and artefact to wash into my consciousness and hopefully surface as something in my work in the future. An object that I was very drawn to are these social distancing signs that I regard of as a part of the ecology of the museum; an sign of the times. I took a photograph of it with my iPhone 11 and am planning to use it within a solo show that I’m working on with @rohprojects in Jakarta that will open in December this year. I have absolutely no idea how I’ll use it but I’m sure it’ll come to me (hopefully sometime soon). The show’s about many of the things that I often think about; collections of things, spaces of knowledge, communications and misunderstandings… stuff. Working a lot these days in preparation for a couple of solos that will open this year and the next. Looking forward to a month of walking in Seoul in September after a week of hustling during Frieze. Terribly jetlagged. It’s 7:06 am and I’ve been up all night, my mind spinning at both ends, thinking up new works. Sigh. #MetMuseum #MetMuseumNYC #ROHProjects #HemanChong #AvoidGathering #SocialDistancing #Covid19 #Pandemic2022 #Pandemic #SlowLiving (at ROH Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgxmepKv5Fp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
