![Shavonne Wong The Illusion of Connection](video:https://appealing-boat-740e5f2af8.media.strapiapp.com/The_Illusion_of_Connection_I_1c056f2681.mp4 {layout:container}) Shavonne Wong is a Singaporean new media artist based in Bangkok, whose practice sits at the intersection of digital image-making, artificial intelligence, character building, and participatory formats. She began her career in fashion and advertising photography – an industry that trains you to treat ‘realism’ as something engineered through clothing, make-up, lighting, staging, and retouching – and she has carried that discipline into a body of work where seduction and doubt operate together: images and encounters that draw you in, then ask what you’re projecting onto them. Wong first became widely associated with hyperreal 3D figures and immersive, surreal environments, using the language of the rendered portrait to probe identity, personhood, and belonging in the digital age. Over time, her focus has shifted from constructing images toward building situations – works that make the viewer’s relationship to artificial entities feel uncomfortably ordinary. In her own framing, the practice is interested in experiences “we share but do not always have words for,” including the ways we confide in things we know are not real, and the ways systems author us without permission. As example, Wong’s project _Meet Eva Here_ (2024–2025) develops an AI companion that converts anonymous conversations with an online persona into public diary-like entries – foregrounding the tension between sharing, disclosure, care, and data extraction. ![Shavonne Wong Art {layout:container}](https://appealing-boat-740e5f2af8.media.strapiapp.com/20241010_1_04529b1fb9.jpg "Eva\n2025") A through-line in her work is questioning what we now treat as normal, like talking to machines and curating selves for platforms, and how quickly that normality becomes the background of everyday life. She sees younger generations already moving through digital worlds without a clean split between online and offline. Her projects make that condition visible. Throughout, Shavonne Wong’s work has been presented at venues and events including ArtScience Museum Singapore, ART SG, Taipei Dangdai, NFT Factory in Paris and the Venice Biennale. She was recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia (2020), and her collaborations include Vogue Singapore and Bang & Olufsen.