Sim Chi Yin has created new work for Autograph's commissioning project Critical Times: Dialogues in Contemporary Photography (12/02/2023)
Autograph invited Sim Chi Yin to create a new series of work responding to critical geopolitics – past, present, future – of our time through photography. The suitcase is a little bit rotten is a conceptual series of work using new and found imagery to speculate on the potentialities of transgenerational memory and inheritance, between the artist’s socialist grandfather – a political activist in British Malaya executed for his politics during the Cold War – and her son born in London at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Intervening with an archive of magic lantern slides from the early 1900s as precarious sites of re-imagining and photographic time travel, the artist creates a fantastical time-space visual repertoire, a palimpsest of childhood, trauma, futurity and the long legacies of colonial violence.
https://autograph.org.uk/commissions/sim-chi-yin
Image: Sim Chi Yin, from the series The suitcase is a little bit rotten, 2022