Sim Chi Yin is a finalist the 2024 Sovereign Asian Art Prize (15/03/2024)
Sim has been shortlisted for her glass work The Suitcase is a Little Bit Rotten, Crowd (2023).
For the series The Suitcase is a Little Bit Rotten, the artist contemplates trans-generational memory and inheritance, appropriating and intervening with Magic Lantern slides from the late 1800s and early 1900s. She uses the colonial-era slides depicting landscapes around Southeast Asia as well as the cosmos as sites of time travel, grafting her long-erased socialist grandfather and her toddler son into an imaginary archive, interrupting the colonial representation of a painful family history and an episode in the global Cold War.
Based in Hong Kong, Sovereign Asian Art Prize marks 20 years this year. It works to increases the international exposure of artists in the region while raising funds for programmes that support disadvantaged children using expressive arts.
View the shortlisted artworks online and vote for your favorite on The Sovereign Art Foundation's website by clicking this link.
Image: Sim Chi Yin, The Suitcase is a Little Bit Rotten, Crowd, 2023