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 Mountain that Hid is a two-channel video work that presents an uncanny duality of history that lies in the difference between personal and collective memories. Sim juxtaposes a tunnel in Singapore which symbolizes the passage of exile her grandfather took, with a placid depiction of the Guangzhou ancestral home where he took a temporary stay upon being deported to China. Contrasting the contemporary touristic lens with traces of historical trauma, it reflects notions of circularity of time, diaspora and memory.