The End Time!
Sin Wai Kin
January 31 – March 29, 2025
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.
Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Toronto, CA) Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Toronto, CA) brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of binary categories, their work realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.
The artist is nominated for the 2024 Jarman award for their film works Dreaming the End (2023) and The Breaking Story (2022). They were the recipient of the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023 for their film series Portraits (2023). Their film, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021) was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize, and included in the touring exhibition the
British Art Show 9, as well as being screened at the British Film Institute’s 65th London Film Festival. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Accelerator, Stockholm (2024); Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim (2024); Canal Projects, New York (2025); Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2024); Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2023); Dreaming the End at Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2023); A Dream of Wholeness in Parts at Soft Opening, London (2022); It’s Always You at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2021).
Group exhibitions include Lahore Biennale 03, Lahore (2024); Greater Toronto Art (GTA24) at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; CUTE at Somerset House, London (2024); After Laughter Comes Tears at Mudam, Luxembourg (2023); Turner Prize 2022, Tate Liverpool, (2022); MYTH MAKERS — SPECTROSYNTHESIS III, Taikwun, Hong Kong (2022); Drawing Attention at The British Museum, London (2022). Sin’s work is held in the collections of Tate Collection, UK; The British Museum Prints & Drawings; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, UK; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong and M+ Museum, Hong Kong.
