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STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING 2018
Silas Fong (b.1985) is a contemporary artist born in Hong Kong. He furthered his studies in Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2013- 2015. He received his MFA from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012 and BA from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2008. His video, installation and photographic works have been invited to be presented in exhibitions and festivals including Hong Kong Museum of Art, Goethe-Institut Hongkong, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul International New Media Festival 2011, Taipei Soka Art Center, City Gallery Wellington, ZKM, Saatchi Gallery London, Liverpool Biennial 2010, Dresden
Cynetart 2013, Microwave International New Media Festival and Animamix Biennale. Fong is invited to work as Assistant Professor in the Department of Photography, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University in Seoul starting from September 2017.
He currently lives and works in Hong Kong and Seoul.
Through noticing and documenting overlooked details in everyday life, the artist tries to retain his pace and time so as to understand himself better. In such way he transforms his trivia into psychological experience. This experience reminds the audience of their own daily experience and questions certain social values in life.
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