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 in North Korea and the United States of America. Collectively titled Fallout, the series was commissioned in 2017 by Oslo’s Nobel Peace Center and has been reconfigured for LASALLE’s ICA Singapore. The exhibition exposes the seemingly dormant threat of the nuclear, between and beyond the genres of documentary and landscape photography. Sim’s camera reveals the visible and invisible borders of nuclear warheads, captures objects that have been exposed to nuclear radiation, and allows unusual access to classified spaces.
Sim Chi Yin (born Singapore 1978) is an award-winning photographer who recently joined Magnum Photos. In 2018 Sim won the Chris Hondros Award and taught in the Magnum Foundation’s Social Justice and Photography programme.
Curated by Caterina Riva.
