For our 3rd exhibition of 2024 we’re proud to announce our 6th annual exhibition pairing of an early-career local artist with a celebrated international artist  – presenting Rainbow Chan X Sin Wai Kin. 

Together the artists will combine their passions for universe-building and speculative fiction transforming the Cement Fondu gallery with major new commissioned work by Chan and artworks by Sin Wai Kin previously not seen in Australia. Additionally, the two artists will devise a new and collaborative performance, developed across the UK and Australia, which will be performed live for Sydney audiences and made available for digital viewing.

A 2022 FINALIST in the Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) and Artist of the Year in the FBI SMAC awards, Chun Yin Rainbow Chan is an interdisciplinary artist of Hong Kong-Chinese descent working across music production, performance and visual arts. Her practice engages with mistranslation, diaspora and the effects of globalisation on modern Chinese society with a current focus on traditional bridal laments through her ancestral ties to Weitou people, the first settlers of Hong Kong.

Sin Wai Kin is an artist using speculative fiction within performance, moving image, writing, and print to interrupt normative processes of desire, identification, and objectification. They were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2022 and their performances and works have been shown in major institutions, recently including Para Site, Hong Kong, Somerset House, London, ICA, Los Angeles, Guggenheim, New York, British Museum, ICA, London, Tank Museum, Shanghai, MOCA, Toronto, Hayward Gallery, London, 58th Venice Biennale, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Serpentine Galleries, London.