Kara Chin is a British-Singaporean artist working across animation, ceramics, and installation. Her work inquires into the implications of fast evolving technologies, such as its ethical conundrums and potential consequences of developing robotics and artificial intelligence within the present and future.
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Kara Chin's combines transhumanist and nonhuman perspectives into fictional narratives, drawing theorists such as Sherry Turkle, Mark Fisher, Carrie Heeter, Thomas Metzinger, Donna Harroway, Hans Moravic and Nick Bostrom, to often humorously suggest ways new technologies assimilate into the everyday working and domestic environments.
Her often chaotic installations combine kinetic and robotic components with sound and natural elements such as water and ‘horticultural material’ to combine the organic and synthetic. Their Anthropomorphic features and moving elements are used to transform sculptures into animated creatures through which to empathise and examine individual experiences within these imagined future scenarios.
Recently, Chin has been researching the relationship between technology and hauntology. She is interested in ’digital manifestations’ which she considers as “the most deceptively real 'non-real’ things” and how technology can exacerbate and facilitate being haunted by the future. This has led to a recent series of animations in which technology is paranormally haunting in an attempt to rationalise the behaviour of machines we increasingly do not understand.
Kara Chin (b.1994, Singapore) lives and works in Newcastle, UK. She holds a BA in Fine Art from The Slade School of Fine Art (2018). She has been awarded the Woon Foundation Painting and Sculpture Prize (2018); The Duveen Travel Scholarship, UCL (2018); The Alfred W Rich Prize, Slade (2017); Max Werner Drawing Prize, Slade (2015).
Chin has exhibited internationally at galleries, museums and triennials including: ArtScience Museum, Singapore, SG; Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK; Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK; The 8th International Triennial of Art and Ecology, Maribor, SI; BALTIC39, Newcastle, UK; South London Gallery, London, UK; ADM Gallery, Singapore; DKUK, London, UK; Gallery North, Newcastle, UK; Hatch, Paris, FR; CBS Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Tuesday to Friday, Valencia, ES; Science Museum, London, UK; Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, CN; Quench, Margate, UK; VITRINE, London, UK, Basel, UK, and Digital; Off Site Project, Online; Staffordshire St., London, UK; Linseed Projects, Shanghai, CN; The Art Station, Saxmundham, UK and Asia Now, Paris, FR. VITRINE presented a solo booth of Chin at Frieze London 2023 and the artist had a solo presentation at Art Basel Hong Kong (with Linseed Projects, Shanghai) in March, 2024.
Her work was recently acquired by the Arts Council Collection, UK and Government Art Collection, UK, and is included in private collections internationally.
Current/forthcoming exhibitions include ‘life-bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooooot’ at Glasgow CCA, Glasgow, UK.
Kara Chin, Manutcher Milani, Anna Perach and Ilaria Vinci
Kara Chin, Manutcher Milani, Anna Perach and Ilaria Vinci
Nadim Abbas, Nicole Bachmann, Edwin Burdis, Kara Chin, Anaïs Comer, Tim Etchells, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Ludovica Gioscia, Katrin Hanusch, Candice Jacobs, Sophie Jung, Rene Matić, Campbell McConnell, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif, Milly Peck, Sam Porritt, Ralph Pritchard, Natasha Rees, Bioni Samp, James Stopforth, and Charlie Godet Thomas.
