17.01.24 | BA Drawing Perspectives Talk with Sin Wai Kin
Sin Wai Kin’s talk resonated a lot with my point of view of my own practice. Their work, mainly focused on the embodiment of fictional characters, stands in a threshold territory between reality and fiction. Even though the artist starts from a perspective of speculative fiction and science fiction to explore ways that the world could be different and how different perspectives are present everywhere, I believe that there is a connection with my thoughts in a sense of reflecting on the world through a different perspective.
One of the characters of their universe, the Storyteller, represents the binary of objective and subjective stories. The idea that “the more personal, the more universal” (quote from one of the references that Wai Kin presented) is very meaningful for me and my practice. Since I’ve been working with personal narratives, from my own perspective, memories and feelings, to hear that a body can represent a multiplicity, and a collective can represent one body, makes me feel like I can also reach the collective in the sense of sharing similar life experiences with others. I hope, like Sin Wai Kin, that people will be able to connect and project their experience into my work, resulting in a shared experience of the world, at the same time celebrating individual points of view.