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YAN Wai Yin 忻慧妍

YAN Wai Yin忻慧妍

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YAN Wai Yin (b.1994) works and lives in Hong Kong and London. Yan is an artist working across moving images, photography, and media. She observes the transformation of urban spaces and infrastructures as a means to unfold and investigate the interplay between lived experiences and historical remnants. She aligns herself with the interscalar attunement between place and identity. Her film “Localized Blindness” (2019) was awarded the Best Experimental Award at the 20th South Taiwan Film Festival, “Tugging Diary” (2020) was awarded at Taiwan Kaohsiung Film Festival and Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. In 2023, Yan was a Visual Art Fellow supported by the ACC New York Fellowship (2024). Solo exhibitions include: “Too Long Ago, Not Far” (Floating Projects, 2023) and “Black Bird, Frost Flower and Pink Falling Stars” (RNH Space, 2021). Solo screenings and presentations include: Duddell’s Hong Kong, Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong), deArt Centre (Beijing), DAC.Taipei Digital Art Centre (Taiwan). Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, M+ Museum, Blindspot Gallery, Ben Brown Gallery (Hong Kong), Galerie Urs Meile (Beijing), Asia Art Archive in America (US), CINEMATEK – Royal Film Archive of Belgium (Belgium), Kunstmuseum Bonn, European Media Art Festival (Germany), Open City Documentary Festival (UK), IFFR (Netherlands), Videoex (Switzerland), Image Forum (Japan), DMZ IDFF, EXiS (Korea), and TIVA-ANIMA (Taiwan) among others.

忻慧姸 (生於1994年) 生活及工作於香港及倫敦。她是一位從事流動影像、攝影和媒體創作的藝術家。她藉由城市觀察與設施變遷探討生活經驗與歷史痕跡之間的相互作用。她定位自己的實踐於地方與身份層級化的流動之間。作品《局部失明》(2019) 獲第二十屆南方影展最佳實驗片,《日 ”””’;”””’ 記》(2020) 先後於台灣高雄電影節及巴黎差異與實驗影展暨國際競賽獲獎。她於2023年獲亞洲文化協會頒發紐約獎助計劃視覺藝術學人(2024)。個人展覽包括:《在不太遙遠的很久以前》(據點。句點,2023)及《黑鳥、霜花與粉紅流星》(RNH 空間, 2021)。個人展影包括:都爹利會館,大館當代美術館 (香港), 的|藝術中心 (北京),臺北數位藝術中心 (台灣)。近期展覽及放映包括:香港亞洲電影節,M+ 博物館,刺點畫廊,布朗畫廊 (香港),麥勒畫廊 (北京),亞洲藝術文獻庫美國分部 (美國),CINEMATEK – 比利時皇家電影資料館(比利時),波恩藝術博物館,歐洲媒體藝術節 (德國),Open City 紀錄片節(英國),鹿特丹國際影展 (荷蘭),Videoex (瑞士),Image Forum (日本),DMZ韓國國際紀錄片電影節,EXiS (韓國)及台灣國際錄像藝術展ANIMA (台灣)等。