With archival photographs, sound and video installation, Sim Chi Yin revisited the tragic episode of her family history in the attempt to reconfigure memories of the past, so as to reveal the multiple realities of displacement, exile and trauma.

The Suitcase is a Little Bit Rotten recreates the context of colonial archival images with an artistic intervention of Laterna Magica glass slides with images of Sim’s grandfather and her baby son, who could not meet in real life. In this exhibition, three of the image series, namely Crowd, Climb, and Harbour, are featured; with the juxtaposition of orthodox colonial imaginaries and real-life images of Sim’s family, such intervention manifests a speculative construct of a family continuity enacted in colonial projection.