Sin Wai Kin
Today’s Top Stories
2020
Single-channel video
6’3’’
Turner Prize Nominee Sin Wai Kin’s Today’s Top Stories (2020), commissioned by TANK Shanghai, plays on a retro television alongside Sin’s face wipe imprinted with the makeup of The Storyteller, the character featured in the film. The Storyteller is Sin’s first masculine persona. Adopting the role of a news anchor who recites philosophical propositions that are contradictory but equally true, The Storyteller in Today’s Top Stories is granted the authority to disseminate narratives, examining the idea that reality can often be indistinguishable from illusion.
About Sin Wai Kin:
Sin Wai Kin (fka Victoria Sin) (b. 1991, Toronto) is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. Sin uses drag as a practice of purposeful embodiment questioning the reification and ascription of ideal images within technologies of representation and systems of looking. Drawing from close personal encounters of looking and wanting, their work presents heavily constructed fantasy narratives on the often unsettling experience of the physical within the social body.
Sin is nominated for the Turner Prize 2022 and they will be presenting a solo exhibition at Fondazione Memmo, Rome, in 2023. Sin’s performances and works have been shown at international institutions including Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2023); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022); Para Site, Hong Kong (2022); Channel, Somerset House, London (2022); ICA, Los Angeles (2022); The Guggenheim, New York (2022); The British Museum, London (2022); Shedhalle, Zurich (2021); “British Art Show 9” (2021); ICA, London (2020); Tank Museum, Shanghai (2020); MOCA, Toronto (2019); “MOMENTA biennale de l’image”, Montreal (2019); Hayward Gallery, London (2019); “Meetings on Art” in “The 58th Venice Biennale” (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); “Do Disturb Festival” in Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019); Serpentine Galleries, London (2019); Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei (2018) and Tate Modern, London (2017).
Sin currently lives and works in London.