Sin Wai Kin: The Time of Our Lives

Sin works with performance, moving image, installation, writing, and print, but above all else, their practice is one of storytelling. In their work, there is an inherent concentration on the power of language over the personal and social body, and a belief that the stories told about our realities also create them. They use speculative fiction to challenge normative knowledge production and cultural narratives. The binary categories that characterise our consciousness of ourselves and the world around us are disrupted through references and methods from science fiction, drag, Cantonese opera, Taoist allegories, art history and popular culture. The gestures in this exhibition are informed by tropes in art historical portraiture, narrative film and TV sitcoms that the artist uses to disentangle modes of representation and systems of looking.

Sin’s cosmos is inhabited by an ever-expanding group of enigmatic characters that have multiple lives and emerge in different guises in various works in this exhibition. They are given prominence at Accelerator through portraits of four of them. Each persona is an embodied speculative fiction and a vehicle for the artist to untangle cultural narratives or social order that they process in their work.