“…Sim Chi Yin’s multimedia project One Day We’ll Understand (2016–ongoing) — despite its stern, museological feel, a remarkably stirring exploration of the anti-colonial guerrilla war waged in British Malaya in the mid-20th century …” https://www.frieze.com/article/17th-istanbul-biennial
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My ongoing project “One Day We’ll Understand,” which is currently part of the group show ‘UnAuthorized Medium’ in Amsterdam, reviewed in ArtAsiaPacific. I’m showing an experimental installation of portraits, still life images and text. Installation view by Eva Broekema. “The transcripts and mail correspondences are based on Sim’s six years of research into her family’s oral…
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I enjoyed this conversation with Objects Lessons Space about the place of facts in making art, experimentation and the power of stories. We delved into the slippage between fact and fiction and the role of archives in my work. The piece also includes excerpts from various bodies of work, including One Day We’ll Understand and Most People Were…
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Thanks to Art Radar for the feature of “Most people were silent.” The work, on nuclear weapons in our world, was originally commissioned by Nobels Fredssenter | Nobel Peace Center for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). You can head over to the link below to read the full piece, which includes an…
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Thanks Mackerel and Marc Nair for this interview on my solo exhibition “Most People Were Silent” on at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore till 10 October. Curated by Caterina Riva. http://www.mackerel.life/inside-the-ripple-an-interview-with-sim-chi-yin/ The work, on nuclear weapons in our world, was originally commissioned by Nobels Fredssenter | Nobel Peace Center for the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). With…
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Spoke to Magnum.com on where I am with my work and practice. Part of Magnum’s series of interviews introducing the new nominee members this year. https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/magnum-nominee-sim-chi-yin-waited-years-to-be-able-to-commit-to-photography/
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Thanks luxury portal Keyyes for this interview and photo shoot, on my solo exhibition “Most People Were Silent”, on at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore till 10 October. Curated by Caterina Riva. The work is a new installation of the exhibition commission I created for the Nobel Peace Prize at the Nobels Fredssenter | Nobel Peace Center last December. This profile article comes…
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On joining Magnum Photos as its first Southeast Asian photographer, on the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition commission, on the aesthetics of horror, on starting a research PhD at War Studies/ King’s College London, and on shuffling towards the big 4-0! Thanks The Straits Times and Toh Wen Li and the Lianhe Zaobao and Chow Yian Peng, and the two photographers for these interviews and profiles.…
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Thank you to the British Journal of Photography for a 12-page feature on my evolving work, practice and thinking, in its July 2018 issue catching up with three photographers previously on its “Ones To Watch” list. http://www.bjp-online.com/2018/06/sim-chi-yin/ | “When we first featured Sim Chi Yin in Ones To Watch in 2014, she seemed to have…
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The New Yorker made a video piece on my Nobel Peace Prize exhibition commission “Fallout”. Video and interview by Gareth Smit.
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My project ‘The Rat Tribe’ was featured in the 15th annual Istanbul Biennial in 2017 alongside work by artists of all kinds and backgrounds under the theme ‘A Good Neighbour.’ Frieze Magazine wrote of The Rat Tribe: “Some dwellings are more dispassionately treated, as in Sim Chi Yin’s The Rat Tribe (2011–14), which captures the poor inhabitants…
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Thank you BBC and Channel News Asia, for having me in your studios last week to speak on “Fallout”, my exhibition on nuclear weapons, a commission for the Nobel Peace Prize 2017. “Fallout” is on show in Oslo at the Nobel Peace Centre till November 2018. BBC interview, on Newsday, 19 Jan 2018: Channel News…
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Rat Tribe -CNN interview
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Kristie Lu Stout of CNN interviews me on the “Rat Tribe” project I did on migrant workers living in Beijing’s air raid shelters and basements. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/02/18/intv-lu-stout-sim-chi-yin-china-rat-tribe.cnn
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