On Sunday, May 14th at 4 pm the Fondazione Memmo will host an educational workshop for children between 5 and 11 years old: an interactive path to put the youngest in contact with contemporary art and the exhibition “Dreaming the End” by Sin Wai Kin, curated by Alessio Antoniolli.
The fee (10 euros) will be entirely donated to Theodora Onlus Foundation. For information and reservations: f_campli@yahoo.com.
The MEMMO Foundation in Rome opens its doors to the public to introduce the creative activity of a young North American artist. From 4 May to 29 October, the premises of the Foundation will host “Dreaming the end“, the first solo exhibition of SIN WAI KIN in Italy. Thanks to the work of the new curator Alessio Antoniolli, former director of Gasworks and Triangle Network, and recently joined the Foundation’s working group, it will be possible to get to know the work of this “nouvelle Vogue” of the artistic world.
The exhibition mainly takes place in one room, where a 21-minute video is projected and repeated in an infinite loop. In the video SIN WAI KIN plays with the visual artistic language to convey to the public a deconstructed and constantly evolving vision of the self and does so through its dreamlike poetics. The artist presents himself differently in the minutes of filming, changing hairstyles and modifying his face, thanks to the skilful use of make-up, especially on the face, there are also changes of clothes, all used in perfect symbiosis with the surrounding world and with what it wants to represent to visitors, i.e. a continuous change of the person and the world around him. The video was made in Rome, a city which, by the artist’s own admission during the presentation, lent itself perfectly to his artistic-creative idea, where the past blends naturally with the present. Between Villa Medici, the historic residence and headquarters of the French Academy, the Square Colosseum of Eur and the interiors of Palazzo Ruspoli, the whimsical young WAI KIN moves upstairs, walks through the labyrinths of the park and converses with the statues and with her itself.
Particularly effective is the moment of dialogue, also in a sort of loop, with the head of the statue of Janus Two-faced, which has always been considered the representation of ambivalence, change and transitions. The other room of the MEMMO Foundation displays the stage equipment, the wigs used by the Canadian for her characters and some handkerchiefs with face casts imprinted on them, all different from each other due to the tricks used from time to time to create her personages. The exhibition will see the simultaneous creation of a publication in the form of a photo novel, an expression that for years has been used to tell stories in Italy especially during the 60s, 70s and 80s and which appears to be very similar to the expressive language by the same artist. The proposed visual philosophical experience is very strong and impactful and will certainly leave the public displaced, who will find this method incisive and certainly unconventional but which cannot fail to attract their curiosity by leaving deep reflections. The spaces of the Foundation will be open free of charge from Monday to Sunday from 11 to 18, except Tuesdays.
