Sin Wai Kin: A Dream of Wholeness in Parts

5 Mar-14 Apr 2022

PV 4 Mar 2022, 6-8pm

Overview

Sin Wai Kin is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body.

Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991 Toronto) lives and works in London. This spring, the artist will have a solo performance at the Guggenheim, New York. Sin’s most recent film, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021) was recently screened at The British Film Institute’s 65th London Film Festival. Their work is currently included in the touring exhibition the British Art Show 9 as well as Protozone at Shedhalle, Zürich and HYPER-POSSIBLE: Coventry Biennial 2021, Coventry. Recent solo exhibitions include It’s Always You at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2021); She’s Hopeful (2018) at Soft Opening, London (2020); Narrative Reflections on Looking at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2020); Narrative Reflections on Looking at Sotheby’s S2, London (2018) and Indifferent Idols at Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei (2018). Recent group exhibitions include Carnival at The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver (2021); Other World at Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2021); B3 Biennial of Moving Image, Frankfurt (2021); Polymorfous Sex at Display Association for Research and Collective Practice, Prague (2021); Love in the times of… curated by Gianni Jetzer at Hotel Europe, Zürich (2021); Born in Flames: Feminist Futures at Bronx Museum, New York (2021); The many faced god.dess, curated by Thomas Conchou at La Maison populaire de Montreuil, Montreuil (2021); Age of You, curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Copeland & Hans Ulrich Obrist at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai & MOCA Toronto (2020 & 2019); Together at M HKA, Antwerp (2020); MORE, MORE, MORE at Tank, Shanghai (2020); Masks at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto (2020); Transformer: A Rebirth of Wonder, curated by Jefferson Hack at 180 The Strand, London (2019); Rewriting the Future at Site Gallery, Sheffield (2019); La vie des choses at MOMENTA Biennale de l’Image, Montreal (2019); Kiss My Genders at Hayward Gallery, London (2019); Display at Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2019); A Doll’s House at Goethe Centre, Baku (2019); BCE at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019) and DRAG at Hayward Gallery, London (2018). Their work is in the public collections of British Museum Prints & Drawings; The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art and Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong.

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