
REVIEWS
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NUS Museum
Heman Chong
Calendars (2020–2096)
at the NUS Museum, Singapore, 2011. Courtesy National University Singapore Museum.
Heman Chong’s most recent project in his native Singapore consisted of 1,001 photographs depicting various “public spaces”—in the sense of their being freely accessible—that were all shot without a single person captured in the frame. Each of these images is presented in the form of a one-page calendar spread, spanning the years 2020 to 2096, collectively forming a cumulative but…