MATRIX 284 / Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing

December 13, 2023–March 10, 2024

Sin Wai Kin uses speculative fiction and storytelling to create multilayered performances and moving image works. The Story Changing, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States, explores how forms of embodiment and multiplicity have the potential to transform social narratives.

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Sin Wai Kin, Dreaming the End (film still), 2023 © the artist. Courtesy the artist and Fondazione Memmo, Rome.
Sin Wai Kin, Dreaming the End (film still), 2023 © the artist. Commissioned by Fondazione Memmo, Rome. Produced by Mira Productions. Courtesy the artist.
Sin Wai Kin, Dreaming the End (film still), 2023 © the artist. Commissioned by Fondazione Memmo, Rome. Produced by Mira Productions. Courtesy the artist.
Sin Wai Kin, Dreaming the End (film still), 2023 © the artist. Commissioned by Fondazione Memmo, Rome. Produced by Mira Productions. Courtesy the artist.
Sin Wai Kin, Dreaming the End (film still), 2023 © the artist. Commissioned by Fondazione Memmo, Rome. Produced by Mira Productions. Courtesy the artist.
Sin Wai Kin, The Breaking Story (film still), 2022. Commissioned by Sunpride Foundation and Tai Kwun Contemporary for Myth Makers (Dec 24, 2022–April 10, 2023), Tai Kwun, Hong Kong.
Sin Wai Kin, The Breaking Story, (film still), 2022. Commissioned by Sunpride Foundation and Tai Kwun Contemporary for Myth Makers (24 Dec 2022–10 Apr 2023), Tai Kwun, Hong Kong.
Sin Wai Kin, The Breaking Story, (film still), 2022. Commissioned by Sunpride Foundation and Tai Kwun Contemporary for Myth Makers (24 Dec 2022–10 Apr 2023), Tai Kwun, Hong Kong.

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Wednesday, December 13, 5 PM
Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Sin Wai Kin and Victoria Sung on MATRIX 284 / Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing

Artist Sin Wai Kin and Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator Victoria Sung discuss the influence of science and speculative fiction, drag and theatrical performance, in Sin's elaborately constructed moving image works.

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MATRIX 284 / Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing

December 13, 2023–March 10, 2024

Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Toronto, Canada) uses speculative fiction and storytelling to create multilayered performances and moving image works. Drawing on their early performances in London’s experimental drag scene, in which their onstage persona pastiched an idealized vision of Western femininity, their cast has grown to encompass an expanding universe of characters.

MATRIX 284 / Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States, presents two of their most recent video works, The Breaking Story (2022) and Dreaming the End (2023). Featuring the characters The Storyteller and Change, the works address how forms of embodiment and multiplicity have the potential to transform social narratives. Using makeup and costuming derived from both drag performance and Cantonese and Peking opera, Sin illuminates the binary constructs that regulate processes of identification...

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MATRIX 284: Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing is curated by Victoria Sung, Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator.

The exhibition is part of BAMPFA’s ongoing MATRIX series of contemporary art exhibitions. Founded in 1978, MATRIX provides artists with an experimental platform to make and show new work.

The MATRIX program is made possible by a generous endowment gift from Phyllis C. Wattis.

MATRIX 284 / Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing

December 13, 2023–March 10, 2024

Past Events

Artist’s Talk and Conversation: Sin Wai Kin and Victoria Sung on MATRIX 284 / Sin Wai Kin: The Story Changing