Lip Chiong is a Singaporean architect-turned-artist who makes immersive videos of imaginary environments using a mix of film, digital media and generative AI. Born in 1975, Lip worked as an architect in London UK since 2003 and later in Shanghai China as founder of his design studio until 2020 when he started working as a full-time artist based in Singapore.
Lip is interested in the questions “Does our everyday space shape who we become?” and if so, “Can we re-construct our reality to become who we want to be?”. His works documents the state of reality with photography and video, and offers an alternative world through creative video story-telling experimenting with generative AI tools.
Lip constructs fictitious scenes set in familiar viewpoints in Singapore that encapsulates a sense of identity in our collective subconscious, whilst revealing compromises and contradictions between individuals and their social contract, thereby challenging us to reimagine our understanding of the status quo.
At the same time, his work brings into question the cliches and stereotypical concepts that are prevalent in our common sensibility, highlighting the cyclicality of contemporary culture where AI models trained on internet and social media content that shaped our stereotypical concepts are now used to produce more content we consume.
In 2023, Lip exhibited 3 feature video artworks made with generative AI tools at the Singapore Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Architecture. In early 2025 Lip presented two digital video artworks commissioned by RAW MOVES LTD as part of RawGround: Balancing– The Movement of Consciousness.
