“FALLOUT” WITH NOBEL PEACE PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHER SIM CHI YIN

In conversation with Becky Davis

Friday, March 16, 6pm | 60 RMB |BW16-6

Sim Chi Yin was commissioned as last year’s Nobel Peace Prize photographer to make an exhibition on the 2017 Peace Prize winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). She travelled 6,000 kilometers along the China-North Korea border and through six states in United States, to create a series of diptychs reflecting on humans’ experience with nuclear weapons, past and present. As an artist, she is particularly interested in history, memory, and migration and its consequences, working in photography, film, sound, text and archival material. Join her at this event as she discusses the Fallout/Nobel project and some other aspects of her award-winning creative work. Sim Chi Yin will be in conversation with Becky Davis, Beijing correspondent for Agence-France Presse.

Sim Chi Yin (b. 1978) is the granddaughter of a photographer and journalist killed during China’s civil war. This history, taboo in her family for decades during the Cold War, eventually drew her back to China from her native Singapore. Chi Yin was commissioned as the Nobel Peace Prize photographer in 2017 and created a solo show for the Nobel Peace Center museum in Oslo on nuclear weapons. Her photo and film work has been shown in museums, galleries and photo festivals all around the world. She was the inaugural Magnum Foundation Social Justice and Photography fellow at New York University in 2010 and a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 2013. Chi Yin was a newspaper staff writer and foreign correspondent for nine years before quitting to be an independent visual artist. She is researching a book on the early Cold War that tells the story of her grandfather, his compatriots and their anti-colonial battle in British Malaya, and working on a global project on sand.