Constructed in the form of an eye test/observational diagnosis, Localized Blindness is an autobiographical-fictional narrative that consists of personal archives, found materials, fiction, and literary essays. What is left after the passing of an individual? The video documents a dreadful, almost suffocating conversation between me – an individual who experienced consecutive passings of people; and another me – an observational being who witnessed the changes of my accompany; and the other voices – from books and personal encounters that echo the distance between the subject and the outsider.

YAN Wai Yin (b.1994) works and lives in Hong Kong and London. Yan excels at the juxtaposition and insertion of literary texts in narratives. Through shifting personal observations and the temporal, emotional distance in different texts, Yan inscribes quotidian fragments of memories lingering in space and objects. 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 awarded the Asian Cultural Council 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 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: M+ Museum, Blindspot Gallery, Ben Brown Gallery (Hong Kong), Galerie Urs Meile (Beijing), Yale University (US), Kunstmuseum Bonn, European Media Art Festival (Germany), Open City Documentary Festival (UK), IFFR (Netherlands), Videoex (Switzerland), Image Forum (Japan), EXiS (Korea), and TIVA-ANIMA (Taiwan) among others.