The End Time!
Sin Wai Kin

Opening Friday, January 31, 2025, 6-8pm
Free RSVP

Sin Wai Kin uses performance, film, speculative fiction, and fantasy to realize alternate worlds describing the experience of the physical within the social body. The artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in New York, The End Time!, will feature a new two-channel film installation, The Time of Our Lives (2024), co-produced by Accelerator, Kunsthall Trondheim, Canal Projects, and Blindspot Gallery, alongside Essence (2024). Shown together for the first time, both moving image works act as connected explorations of the artist’s elaborate world-building, as a series of recurring characters simulate the questioning of objective truth and a hysterical unraveling of reality. Taking the form of a science fiction sitcom, The Time of Our Lives depicts a day in the home of a stereotypical, wholesome all-American couple. The audience is invited to witness testimonies from spaces of liminality that go beyond cultural dichotomies, between life and death, self and other, dreaming and waking, fantasy and reality. This work engages different aspects of time as a concept, as Sin draws from theories of quantum mechanics, physics, and cosmology to question assumptions about reality and objective truths. Essence takes the form of a mock commercial for a fictional cologne, as the character Wai King is seen riding a horse through an Arcadian landscape, on a hero’s journey to find what is intrinsic to his nature. The advertisements’ tagline, “Your true self awaits,” skewers how personhood is commodified under the guise of authenticity.