The exhibition Double Exposure is a continuation of the investigation into the continuities and transformations of subjective visual languages in artistic photography that began in the previous group exhibition Exposure. In Double Exposure, the focus is on works that have been developed from found image archives or collections, and that through visually (re)writing unavailable or repressed experience react to the dispositive of the respective media and the aesthetics of the image. In the exhibition Double Exposure, the title serves as a metaphor for processes of memory politics that are explored and transformed through randomly found images or specific archive viewings. The exhibition, curated by Anna Voswinckel, ran between November 25, 2023 and January 28, 2024.

Sim Chi Yin takes part in the exhibition with the two-channel film The Mountain That Hid and The Suitcase Is a Little Bit Rotten (2023) - an artistic intervention into a colonial picture archive. An investigation of colonialism’s complex, transnational political entanglements and its traumatic effects on (family) biographies forms the starting point of Sim Chi Yin’s multimedia practice. Inspired by research into the life of her grandfather, whom the British colonial authorities deported to China and murdered there in 1949, the artist spent ten years studying the Malayan Emergency, the anti-colonial war of 1948–1960. An artist talk with Sim Chi Yin and Gabrielle Moser took place on December 7, 2023. You can watch the talk by clicking this link. 

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Image: Sim Chi Yin, The Suitcase Is A Little Bit Rotten, 2023 (left); The Mountain That Hid, 2022 (right). Photo credit: Markus Krottendorfer