Montez Press Radio Live Broadcast

Artist Sin Wai Kin and Curator Maggie Matić speak about Wai Kin's practice and their latest film The Fortress, which was co-commissioned by Lahore Biennale Foundation and Forma and selected for Artists' Film International: Dream States by Forma and Southwark Park Galleries, London.

Introduction by Chris Rawcliffe and Antonia Shaw from Forma.

Sin Wai Kin (they/them) (b. 1991, Toronto, CA) brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of existing between binary categories, their work realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness. The artist was nominated for the 2024 Jarman award for their film works Dreaming the End (2023) and The Breaking Story (2022). They were the recipient of the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023 for their film series Portraits (2023). Their film, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021) was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize, and included in the touring exhibition the British Art Show 9, as well as being screened at the British Film Institute’s 65th London Film Festival.

Maggie Matić (they/them) is a curator, writer and researcher with a specialism in contemporary feminist, crip and queer visual culture. Maggie is currently Director of Auto Italia in London, where they serve as the strategic leader of the organisation, developing Auto Italia’s vision and continuing to grow the gallery’s track record as an organisation at the forefront of new discourse and practice in contemporary art. They have previously held curatorial and managerial positions at Studio Voltaire, Somerset House, Tate, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), The University of Liverpool and The Royal Standard.