Sim Chi Yin

  • Shifting Sands “The Shifting Sands” project focuses on the natural resource of sand which, besides air and water, is our...
    Shifting Sands 

     

    “The Shifting Sands” project focuses on the natural resource of sand which, besides air and water, is our most used commodity. Since 2017, Sim Chi Yin has traveled to different places including Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam, to capture the local usage of this non-renewable resource through her lens. For Sim, the usage of sand is a reflection of overexploitation of land, rapid urbanization, and global income disparity: wealthy states buy up land from their poorer neighbors and move it to where they want it. Singapore, where Sim is from, is the world’s largest importer of sand per capita. It has reclaimed almost a quarter of its territory with sand over the past 60 years. In this series of works, Sim’s artistic approach of images shows the contemporary landscape aesthetics, meanwhile brings thinking and enlightenment to the present and future of humanity.

  • Sim Chi Yin Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice includes photography, moving image, archival interventions...
    Sim Chi Yin

     

    Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice includes photography, moving image, archival interventions and text-based performance, and focuses on history, conflict, memory and extraction. She is newly based in Berlin.Recent solo exhibitions include One Day We’ll Understand, Les Rencontres d’Arles (2021), One Day We’ll Understand, Landskrona Foto Festival, Sweden (2020), One Day We’ll Understand, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019) and Most People Were Silent, Institute of Contemporary Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore (2018), Fallout, Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017). Her work has also been included in group shows such as Most People Were Silent, Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, United Kingdom (2019); UnAuthorised Medium, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Relics, Jendela (Visual Arts Space) Gallery, Esplanade, Singapore (both 2018); and the Guangzhou Image Triennial ( 2021), the 15th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2017). Sim was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017, nominated for the Vera List Center’s Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice 2020. Chi Yin is represented by Zilberman Gallery in Berlin and Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. She joined Magnum Photos as a nominee member in 2018 and is currently also doing a visual practice-based PhD at King’s College London.