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“One Day We’ll Understand” at Framer Framed Gallery, Amsterdam
A piece of my on-going history project “One Day We’ll Understand” is in a group show in Amsterdam 15 September to 18 November, at Framer Framed gallery. “Unauthorised Medium”, curated by Annie Kwan. https://www.magnumphotos.com/events/event/sim-chi-yin-unauthorised-medium/ https://framerframed.nl/en/exposities/expositie-unauthorised-medium/ I’m showing an experimental installation of portraits, still life images and text from my “One Day We’ll Understand” project. Installation view by…
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A new chapter…
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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“Most People Were Silent”, solo show at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
“Most People Were Silent”, my solo exhibition on nuclear weapons, originally a commission for the Nobel Peace Prize / Nobels Fredssenter | Nobel Peace Center, will open at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore on 20 July, in a installation of video and still images suspended from screens. It’s been a pleasure working this new installation of this work with…
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Joined Magnum Photos
Excited to begin a new chapter of creating, making, learning, thinking, experimenting, collaborating with Magnum Photos, as my work evolves and diversifies, and combines with explorations in art and academic research. I’ve joined the agency as a nominee: https://www.magnumphotos.com/…/updates-2018-magnum-photos-…/ A special thank you to Jonas Bendiksen and Susan Meiselas for shepherding me through this process, and several friends for helping me…
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Interview in British Journal of Photography – Shifting Territory
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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Performative reading at Magnum Foundation “Counter Histories” symposium
I presented my project on my family history and the Cold War in British Malaya at the Magnum Foundation “Counter Histories” symposium at the New School in New York, 1 May 2018. A great day of learning and sharing with other practitioners working on counter narratives. Photo by Emma Raynes
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Installation views: “Most People Were Silent”, at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, till 10 Oct
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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BBC and Channel News Asia interviews on “Fallout”
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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Contributor portrait shot by Kathy Ryan, New York Times Magazine, 3 May 2018
Thank you very much Kathy Ryan for having me sit for a contributor portrait by you for The New York Times Magazine. Thank you for sharing this special light! #Repost @kathyryan with @get_repost ・・・ Sim Chi Yin 5/3/18 9:54 a.m. @nytmag. Yesterday, Sim Chi Yin was awarded the Getty Images and The Chris Hondros Fund Award at the Aperture Gallery. Chi Yin…
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Presenting “One Day We’ll Understand”, Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories symposium, New York, 1 May 2018
I’ll be presenting my project “One Day We’ll Understand”, on a chapter of the hidden histories from Cold War-era Southeast Asia — as a performative reading — at the Magnum Foundation “Counter Histories” symposium next Tuesday May 1, alongside an amazing slate of speakers. My long and still-in-progress project stems from family history but has become a…
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“When the rooster crows at dawn”
Dear 爷爷 (grandpa) , I’m taking you back to 南洋 Nanyang (the “southern seas”) tonight. In early 1949, you were transferred from Taiping detention camp onto a train, and deported by British from the port of Singapore, sailing seven days and seven nights to Swatow/Shantou in southern China. Tonight, I’m taking you from Beijing to…
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Istanbul Biennale reviewed in Art Forum
Great to receive this review of the Istanbul Biennial in Artforum International Magazine’s December issue, including a detail of my work “The Rat Tribe, 2011-2015”, alongside that of some of the other international artists who exhibited. https://www.artforum.com/inprint/issue=201710&id=72471 The Biennale is also reviewed in the latest issue of @Frieze Magazine. https://frieze.com/issues/frieze-magazine/issue-192 With thanks to the wonderful…
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Confronting North Koreans – how my thumb was ripped
Not a happy story, but for the record, this was the essay I wrote — as soon as I could type again — on how my thumb ligament was ripped when a group of North Korean women migrant workers attacked me in a border town in China: http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/media/north-korea-border-photographer-attacked
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The nuclear “button”?
My button is bigger than your button…. but there is no button… I don’t know about the North Korean command and control systems, but in all the Cold War era nuclear facilities I photographed in November in the United States for “Fallout”, my exhibition for the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, there wasn’t a big angry…
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“The Tin Men” to be exhibited at Sydney Festival 2018
The project I shot in 2014 in Indonesia’s Bangka island — where much of the world’s supply of tin used for our electronic products — will be shown in the Sydney Festival opening 5 January 2018, at the University of New South Wales galleries. Curated by Cherie McNair. https://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2018/in-your-dreams Full story: http://chiyinsim.com/tin-men/
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“Young Woman Achiever of the Year 2014”: acceptance speech
A “thank you” speech I made in accepting the “Young Woman Achiever of the Year” award given out by Her World in Singapore, in 2014.
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