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Self Help Diploma in Art Teaching
Ong Kong Liang

Lightboxes Installation

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Student Bio Project Description

Kong Liang is a visual artist based in Singapore. Most Self Help examines the relationship between the self and

recently, he was a studio assistant to French sculptor Lionel the outside world, amidst constant surroundings. The self

Sabatté for Art Encounters 2020 organised by Art Outreach is seen here as a representational subject reactive towards

Singapore. In 2019, he interned at the Esplanade Co. Ltd, the surrounding environment. It visualises the iterative

where he assisted in the video production for its social reactions on the body that are constructed from hidden

media content. He was the Singapore representative at human emotions like fear and desire, emerging from the

the 18th International High School Arts Festival Japan and notion of competitive driven progress. The setup is a

participated in the Shooting Home Youth Awards mentorship physical manifestation of these emotions, upgraded as

programme (2017) organised by Objectifs, Centre for Film methodologies of self-help. It challenges the perception

and photography. of upgrading oneself in present times, by presenting

the absurdity of this mythical “identity”, that is inevitably

associated with reflections of the inner self, hidden within an

imaginary consciousness.

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