An Arm A Leg and Other Stories

Heman Chong @ SLG, Dec 11 – Feb 28

10 December 2015

Artist and writer Heman Chong opens a new solo exhibition titled An Arm, A Leg and Other Stories, running at South London Gallery from December 11 until February 28, 2016.

In an attempt to explore ideas of exchange and “the role of rules and regulations in determining codes of behaviour”, Chong has placed a million blacked-out business cards across the gallery floor, accompanied by daily performances in which participants are taught to recite a short story that is transmitted by word of mouth.

As part of his show, Chong has also invited writers Mira Mattar, and Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams (who are all part of an informal residency programme for fiction writers at the gallery) to work on their own writing projects, which will be published in excerpts upon the completion of the residency programme.

See the exhibition page for details. **

Heman Chong + Anthony Marcellini, 'Twenty Plots for Things To Come' (2013 – ongoing). Photo by Christo Crocker. Image courtesy Alana Kushnir.
Heman Chong + Anthony Marcellini, ‘Twenty Plots for Things To Come’ (2013 – ongoing). Photo by Christo Crocker. Image courtesy Alana Kushnir.
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