Sim Chi Yin at the Visual Kinship exhibition at Hood Museum of Art (30/08/2025)
Sim Chi Yin presents her site-specific installation The Suitcase Is a Little Bit Rotten as part of Visual Kinship at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, on view from August 30 to November 29, 2025. Co-curated by Alisa Swindell, Thy Phu, Kimberly Juanita Brown, and Iyko Day, the exhibition examines how photography shapes and questions notions of belonging and family.
Commissioned by the Hood Museum, Sim’s installation reimagines colonial-era magic lantern slides and incorporates a newly produced video work, reflecting on her family’s multigenerational histories of colonialism, war, and migration.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Sim will join the panel discussion Speaking of Kinship with Nancy Rivera and Kali Spitzer on September 12, 2025, and take part in the International Association for Visual Culture Conference (Kinship.Abolition.Freedom) at Dartmouth and online, October 9–11, 2025.
Image: Sim Chi Yin, The Suitcase Is a Little Bit Rotten, Harbour, 2023 (detail). Photo by Marisa Srijunpleang. Courtesy of the Jim Thompson Art Center
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