Heman Chong 張奕滿
Sometimes, I Feel I Think Too Much About 1997
2024
Edition of 28 + 10 AP
59.4 x 42 cm
Spanning installation, painting, performance, photography, and writing, Heman Chong's practice is largely concerned with interrogating the everyday mediums of politics through language, seriality, infrastructure and exchanges of information. Often striking in their potential to address collective visions of futuristic utopias, Chong’s works have been described as a means of drawing out the ‘inevitably mnemonic nature of the conceptual object’. Chong created this limited edition print for the 2024 edition of the Para Site Annual Gala and Benefit Auction. In this work, the image of a vintage postcard depicting a waterfall is repeated. Although the postcard represents an actual landmark, Chong’s work reads into the utopian, fantastical tendencies of travel images, asking its viewers to detect a quality of wistful, almost nostalgic yearning that accompanies such representations. Chong’s works can be found in public and private collections internationally, including M+, Hong Kong; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco/Paris; Singapore Art Museum; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; The National Museum of Art Osaka, amongst others.