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	As The West SleptArtworks by Heman Chong, Fyerool Darma, Ho Rui An and Erika Tan
	

	Heman Chong is an artist whose work is located at the intersection between image, performance, situations and writing. His practice can be read as an imagining, interrogation and sometimes intervention into infrastructure as an everyday medium of politics. His solo exhibitions include: Spirts in the Material World (Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2019); fikitionfiktionfiktion (Weserburg Museum, Bremen, 2019). Legal Bookshop (Swiss Institute New York, USA, 2018); Never is a Promise (Calle Wright, Manila, Philippines, 2018); Because, the Night (72-13, Singapore, 2017); Ifs, Ands, Or Buts (Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016); An Arm, A Leg and Other Stories (South London Gallery, london, England, 2015); Never, a Dull Moment (Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea, 2015); Correspondence(s) (P!, New York, USA, 2014); Calendars (2020–2096) (NUS Museum, Singapore, 2011); Common People and Other Stories (Art in General, New York, USA, 2007); The Sole Proprietor and Other Stories (Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou , China, 2007); Vexillogy, Cartography and Other Stories (Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2005); Snore louder if you can (The Substation, Singapore, 2004); and The Silver Sessions (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2003). Chong is the co-director and founder (with Renée Staal) of The Library of Unread Books, a library made up of donated books previously unread by their owners. He is currently working on a novel, The Book of Drafts, which will be published by Polyparenthesis in 2020.
	&#60;img width="1000" height="1538" width_o="1000" height_o="1538" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/129d18723b7a1feb8c9a8dcbaff25516a976374f7f4373b1f85f2b5213be638b/ForeignAffairs116Press.jpg" data-mid="51421478" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/129d18723b7a1feb8c9a8dcbaff25516a976374f7f4373b1f85f2b5213be638b/ForeignAffairs116Press.jpg" /&#62;Heman ChongForeign Affairs #116, 2018, signed and dated verso, 
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177 x 118 inches (450 x 300 cm)Courtesy of the artist and Amanda Wilkinson Gallery

	Fyerool Darma (b. 1987, Singapore) interrogates and complicates the cultural consumption of history in relation to contemporary markers of identity and class. His artefacts are based on an extensive visual vocabulary drawn from popular culture, literature, archives, the internet, and his own life. Recent solo exhibitions include Sunny, your smile ease the pain, Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2019) and the long-term research project After Ballads, NUS Museum, Singapore (2017-18). His work has been presented in group exhibitions such as 900mdpl’s Ghost of a thousand conversations in Kaliurang, Jogjakarta (Indonesia 2019), Asia Film Archive’s State of Motion: A Fear of Monsters and Lost and found: imagining new worlds, LASALLE’s Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (both Singapore, 2019); Fantasy Islands, Objectifs Centre of Photography, Singapore (2017); and An Atlas of&#38;nbsp;Mirrors, Singapore Biennial (2016).
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Fyerool Darma

Still from The Poseur (After Ballads), 2019, High definition with sound, 5:39min, 
Commission supported by Temenggong Artists-in-Residence


	Ho Rui An is an artist and
writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance
and theory. He writes, talks and thinks around images, with an interest in
investigating their emergence, transmission and disappearance within contexts
of globalism and governance. He has presented projects at the Gwangju Biennale
(2018), Yinchuan Biennale (2018), Jakarta Biennale (2017), Sharjah Biennial 13
(2017), Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2014), Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
(2017), Jorge B. Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center, Manila (2017),
NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (2017), NUS Museum, Singapore (2016),
Para Site, Hong Kong (2015) and Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries,
Annandale-on-Hudson (2015). He is a recipient of the 2018 DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm.
He lives and works in Singapore and Berlin.
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Yamaguchi Center for Art and Media in 2018


	Erika Tan is an artist, curator whose practice
is primarily research-led. Recent research has focused on the postcolonial and
transnational, working with archival artefacts, exhibition histories, received
narratives, contested heritage, subjugated voices and the transnational
movement of ideas, people and objects. Recent shows include: A Place in the
World, NUA Gallery, Norwich; Unrealised commission, National Gallery,
Singapore; On Attachments and Unknowns, Sa Sa Bassac, Phnom Penh, Cambodia;
Diaspora Pavilion, (Venice Biennale 2017); Artist and Empire (Tate Touring,
National Gallery Singapore 2016/7). She is a Lecturer on the B.A.Fine Arts 4D
Pathway, Central Saint Martins, UAL; a founding member of Asia-Art-Activism
currently based at Raven Row and was awarded the Stanley Picker Fellow in Fine
Art 2018-2020.
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	Opening Performance— 
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November 15 2019,
 6pm—7pm

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November 15 2019, 6pm-7pm


As the West Slept opens with Asia the Unmiraculous, a lecture-performance by Ho Rui An that diffuses the aura of a “miraculous” Asia.

Focusing on the relationship between race and financial capitalism, this performance considers the
“Asianisation” of the Asian miracle and the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis that followed.

The Financial Times in March 2019 boldly claimed that 2020 will mark the beginning of the Asian Century - a new Asian Age defined in part by Asia being home to half of the world’s middle class and its economies being larger than the rest of the world combined. How is this Asian future being imagined? Ho’s Asia the Unmiraculous interrogates the ‘return’ of Asia to the future and fundamentally questions the many ideologies we employ when speaking about the global market.

Asia the Unmiraculous was first presented at the Gwangju Biennale 2018. This is its first performance in North America.


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	November 15⁠—
December 15 2019

With artworks by 
Heman Chong, 
Fyerool Darma, 
Ho Rui An and Erika Tan.


	As The West Slept features artworks and performances that respond to the historical conditions of Asian capitalism as a global imaginary and as a performance of both hype and power. The title of the exhibition draws from a phrase, employed by Singaporean intellectual Kishore Mahbubani, to allude to the distinct moments in Western history that have obscured the mercurial rise of Asia. From quiet facades of power like the backdoor of embassies to bombastic performances of Asian Chippendales taking over a colonial estate, the artworks in this exhibition interrogate this historical period through displays of bravado that challenge prevailing narratives of an Asian future. In turn, the exhibition asks of us to re-consider the nature of geopolitical shifts we see today.&#38;nbsp;

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	Silver Art Projects introduces a new space for creative energy
that contributes to the cultural vitality of lower Manhattan by providing
ongoing sponsored studio space, artist mentorship, and a platform for artists.


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