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Commissioned as this year’s Nobel Peace Prize photographer, Sim Chi Yin was invited to make an exhibition on the 2017 Peace Prize winner, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). Photographer Chi Yin travelled 6,000 kilometers along the China-North Korea border and through six states in United States, to create a series of evocative landscape pictures which she presented as diptychs, reflecting on humans’ experience with nuclear weapons, past and present. Paired and juxtaposed, the pictures lead the viewer to suspend their sense of place and judgement. Chi Yin is the first Asian photographer to get the prestigious commission. In this talk, Sim Chi Yin will present on her commissioned exhibition “Fallout”, and explore how art can offer ways to grapple with heavy, abstract issues of international politics. Chi Yin’s “Fallout” is on show at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo till November (2018).
