Thursday May 23, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Lili Chin
In conversation with Paweł Wojtasik
In Person & Live-streamed
Free admission
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Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Lili Chin in connection with her current solo exhibition “Istoria’s Garden” at the gallery on view through June 8th. Chin will be joined in conversation by artist Paweł Wojtasik.
The discussion will center around Chin’s work with moving image, installation, painting and sculpture, all of which are represented in the show and connected through the concept of a Earth as a global garden, which is most directly suggested in the title piece: a three-channel video with paper clay and branches installation using Super 8mm film footage shot in various and often remote parts of the world.
The talk will also focus on Chin’s revival of ancient and use of historical techniques and processes – such as Japanese Kintsugi techniques, buon fresco painting, and phytography – to further excavate her subject matters.
The in-person event will also be live-streamed on this page.
“Istoria’s Garden” continues through June 8, 2024. Further information about the exhibition can be found HERE._
Lili Chin is an artist based in New York City. Combining installation, video and sculpture, her practice focuses on nature and architecture to explore rituals in time, bridging contemporary and ancient ideas that investigate themes of memory, duration, and spirituality. Her work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center, Island Gallery, Below Grand, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, STPI Print Center, Singapore, among others. Her work has been commissioned by the He Xiangning Museum in Shenzhen and the Ely Center of Contemporary Art in New Haven, CT. Her films have screened at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, 601 Art Space, the Edinburgh Film Festival, and others. Residencies and fellowships include Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York; Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; MacDowell Colony, NH; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; The Studios at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; Hospitalfield, Scotland; the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China; the Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan, and others. She received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego and her BFA from Pratt Institute.
Paweł Wojtasik was born in Łódź, Poland, and lived in Tunisia before coming to the United States as a refugee in 1972. Wojtasik’s film The Aquarium (2006) deals with the destruction of the oceans; while the 360° panoramic video installation Below Sea Level (2009-2011), commissioned by MASS MoCA, concerns the plight of post-Katrina New Orleans. Pigs (2010) was included in the New York Film Festival, Berlinale, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival, where it won a Grand Prize. Single Stream (2013-2014), with Toby Lee and Ernst Karel, was presented at the Museum of the Moving Image, 2014 Whitney Biennial, and the Locarno Film Festival. Wojtasik’s first feature film End of Life, portraying five individuals nearing death, co-directed with John Bruce, premiered at DocLisboa in 2017 and had its US premiere at the 2018 New York Film Festival. The film was selected as a candidate for the 2018 European Academy Awards. Paweł’s most recent feature film Every Pulse of the Heart Is Work, on the theme of labor, shot in Benares and Kerala, India, had its NYC premiere at The Museum of Modern Art as part of 2020 Doc Fortnight.