Sin Wai Kin

Sin Wai Kin

BornNationalityBased In
1991CanadianLondon
Biography

Through a practice that encompasses performance, moving image, sound, writing and print, Sin Wai Kin reveals and subverts traditional, entrenched and idealised notions of femininity, and represents how identity is transmutable, transient and often consciously performed. Using drag as both mode and aesthetic, the artist undermines conventionally rigid binaries – not only those that separate gender, but also the binaries of life and death, dreaming and waking, and self and other – through parody and the invocation of fantasy and fiction. Sin Wai Kin is influenced by a Taoist allegory, in which a man dreams that he is a butterfly, before waking up unsure whether he is a butterfly dreaming that he is a man or vice versa. To perform one of their characters, the artist dons a wig made from their own hair, shed by their previous self, questioning at what point one becomes aware of their performance of self, and demonstrating the ease with which one slips between different identities. ...

Selected Artworks
Face Value (Dollar Baby)
Sin Wai Kin
Face Value (Dollar Baby), 2017
34.5 x 31.5 x 7cm
The boundary of you and not you 1
Sin Wai Kin
The boundary of you and not you 1, 2020
34.5 x 31.5 x 7cm
Act 1 Part 1 tell me everything you saw and what you think it means
Sin Wai Kin
Act 1 Part 1 tell me everything you saw and what you think it means, 2018
Narrative Reflections On Looking, Part One / She Was More Than The Sum Of My Parts
Sin Wai Kin
Narrative Reflections On Looking, Part One / She Was More Than The Sum Of My Parts, 2016
Someone who isn't you
Sin Wai Kin
Someone who isn't you, 2020
34.5 x 31.5 x 7cm
The expression wiped from her face
Sin Wai Kin
The expression wiped from her face, 2016
21 x 17cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Baloise Art Prize2023
Baloise Art Prize2023
Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize2017
Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize2017
Biennals
Momenta Biennale2019 - Montréal
Momenta Biennale2019 - Montréal
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