Sim Chi Yin has created a work for the commission of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (03/01/2023)
Departing from Singaporean artist Sim Chi Yin’s video archive of the last decade, the two-channel film The Mountain that Hid is part of the artist’s project on her family history and the anti-colonial guerrilla war known as the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960), between the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the Commonwealth forces in modern-day Malaysia and Singapore. The two channels develop in different locations: in a railroad tunnel in the jungle in Singapore and in Sim’s ancestral family house in China. Taking a speculative approach to historical processes, topics such as anti-colonial resistances, deportation, diaspora, and trans-generational silences and inheritances take a spectral presence in the work.
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Image: Sim Chi Yin, The Mountain that Hid, Two channel video, 2022