Over the past two decades, Heman Chong has harbored a deep fascination with knowledge circulation through his multifaceted, conceptually driven practice. “Meditations on Shadow Libraries” at STPI gallery represented the Malaysian-born, Singapore-based artist’s steadfast exploration through nine diverse works, with mediums spanning installation, painting, and video. Within the exhibition, a “shadow library”—online databases that facilitate open access to commercialized or copyrighted material—served as a conceptual anchor
