I’m grateful to curator Matthew Lawson Garrett and the team at Datsuijo independent art space for mounting this solo exhibition of my work in Tokyo, transforming my first artist book into a physical installation (and with translation into Japanese)! The book, “She Never Rode That Trishaw Again” (https://chiyinsim.com/she-never-rode-that-trishaw-again/), is the first of possibly four I’m…
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My series of glass works The Suitcase Is A Little Bit Rotten and two-channel film The Mountain That Hid are in a group exhibition “Double Exposure” at Camera Austria in Graz. Curatorial text by Anna Voswinckel: The examination of the complex, transnational political entanglements of colonialism and its traumatic effects on (family) biographies forms the starting…
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I first became interested in Magic Lantern slides in learning through @gabbymoser’s scholarship about how they were a colonial pedagogical tool — specifically, they were used in a series of eight lectures cast as geography lessons to teach pupils around the British empire about its colonies. I became interested in what was inscribed in those…
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“The Suitcase Is A Little Bit Rotten”, drawn from a series of 40 glass slides , and “The Mountain That Hid”, a two-channel video work, are on view at Zilberman Gallery, Berlin, in the group show “Transit”. Zilberman | Berlin is delighted to announce the opening of its new space in Berlin’s Schlüterstraße 45 with…
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An installation of photographic prints and a newly-created VR piece, ‘The Garden Of No Return”, from my “Shifting Sands” project is on view at the Gropius Bau Berlin till August 2023. Indigo Waves and Other Stories Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora 6 April to 13 August 2023 Taking the stories and histories…
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Installation views of my new solo exhibition in Berlin on my long, on-going project re-narrating the anti-colonial war in British Malaya — a story that is as small and as large as one can make it, for all the resonances across the decolonisation wars in the “Third World” at the time. A period of history…
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A solo exhibition of my new work “Interventions”, part of my broader “One Day We’ll Understand” project, opened 4 July 2021 at the Les Rencontres d’Arles. Curated by Sam I-shan. The exhibition is installed in the Abbaye de Montmajour, a Benedictine monastery from the 10th century. https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/expositions/view/1032/sim-chi-yin A review essay on the show, by British…
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Grazie to these two inspiring women who made possible my exhibition at Cortona On The Move of “Fallout”, the project on nuclear weapons originally commissioned by the Nobels Fredssenter | Nobel Peace Center: festival curator Arianna Rinaldo, and Nobel Peace Centre exhibitions director Liv Astrid Sverdrup!! The diptychs, video installation and singles were installed in what used to be a…
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SIM CHI YIN: MOST PEOPLE WERE SILENT Photographs, video and audio installation, various dimensions, 2018. Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore Earl Lu Gallery LASALLE College of the Arts 21 July – 10 October 2018 Curator Caterina Riva’s text “Most People Were Silent” is an exhibition composed of photographs taken in the vicinity of nuclear sites…
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