Foreign Affairs

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Taking on multiple pragmatic uses, the back entrances of embassies have not only been used for deliveries and hassle-free entry, but for secret political conversations, allowing these doors to take on a symbolic meaning representing everything in politics that is unsaid, invisible, and sinister. In his keynote talk unpacking his ongoing project: Foreign Affairs, Heman Chong examines these unassuming backdoors in a series of photographs that he has collected throughout his travels. Chong does not reveal the identity of which country each door belongs, but allows something to remain veiled and inaccessible. He has chosen to force his viewer to see the image repeated multiple times, as if they are a figure of surveillance.

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