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Sim Chi Yin (b.1978, Singapore) is an artist whose research-based practice uses artistic and archival interventions to contest and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives. She works across photography, film, installation, performance and book-making.
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Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice includes photography, moving image, archival interventions, book-making and text-based performance, and focuses on history, conflict, memory and extraction.
Jun 26, 2024 · SINGAPORE – Singaporean artist Sim Chi Yin’s search for her late grandfather – one of the 30,000 people deported to China during the Malayan Emergency (1948 to 1960) – has powered her art...
Chiyin. “Requiem” at the Venice Biennale. My video “Requiem” is showing in the “Disobedience Archive” group exhibition, part of the main show at the 60th Venice Biennale (20 April – 24 Nov 2024). Curated by Marco Scotini, assistant curator Arnold Braho.
Dec 18, 2015 · Chi Yin is the first Asian to be accepted into the prestigious VII photo agency, one of 30 emerging talents the British Journal of Photography said the world should look out for, and a prolific visual storyteller I had learnt about in communications school.
Formerly a Beijing-based correspondent for the Straits Times, Chi Yin was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017 and created a solo show for the Nobel Peace Centre museum in Oslo on nuclear weapons, combining video installation and still photography.
Beijing-based documentary photographer Sim Chi Yin travelled for hours by plane, bus and motorbike to reach a tiny mining village in China’s rural and mountainous Shaanxi province—only to battle with his disinterest for days.
