I’ll be doing a series of talks and presentations of “Fallout”, the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition commission I shot late last year, currently on show all of this year in Oslo at the Nobel Peace Centre.
I’ll show the photographs and video installation on March 16, 6pm, at the Beijing Bookworm Literary Festival.
In Shanghai: on March 19 (5:30pm) at New York University Shanghai, and March 20 (6pm) at the new Creative Arts School of ShanghaiTech University.
Details and registration in these links and attached posters.
http://bookwormfestival.com/bookworm-events/
https://events.shanghai.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/4732
“Fallout”
North Korea and the United States are at two ends of the nuclear equation – and today appear locked in a dangerous cycle of threats and counter-threats. Commissioned as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize photographer, Sim Chi Yin was invited to make an exhibition on the 2017 Peace Prize winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Photographer Chi Yin travelled 6,000 kilometers along the China-North Korea border and through six states in United States, to create a series of evocative landscape pictures which she presented as diptychs, reflecting on humans’ experience with nuclear weapons, past and present. Paired and juxtaposed, the pictures lead the viewer to suspend their sense of place and judgement. Chi Yin is the first Asian photographer to get the prestigious commission. In this talk, Sim Chi Yin will present on her commissioned exhibition “Fallout”, and explore how art can offer ways to grapple with heavy, abstract issues of international politics. Chi Yin’s “Fallout” is on show at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo till November (2018).
Interview on BBC: http://chiyinsim.com/bbc-fallout/
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Sim Chi Yin (b. 1978, Singapore) focuses on history, memory and migration through the mediums of photography and new media. The Nobel Peace Prize photographer for 2017, she has exhibited at the Istanbul Biennale, Photoville in New York, Objectifs Singapore and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in South Korea, among other venues. She does commissioned work for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Time, and Harpers. A finalist for the 2013 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, she was awarded a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice fellowship at New York University in 2010. Chi Yin read history at the London School of Economics and Political Science for her BA and MSc, and was a newspaper journalist and foreign correspondent, and then a contract photographer for The New York Times in China before becoming an independent visual story-teller and artist. http://chiyinsim.com/bio/
