Turner Prize 2022: Hong Kong exhibition propels performance artist Sin Wai-kin onto shortlist
- ‘It’s Always You’ saw Sin Wai-kin perform in drag within fictional worlds playing members of a boy band and a voluptuous, heavily made-up platinum blonde
- Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard and Veronica Ryan make up the rest of the four-strong shortlist
The artist Sin Wai-kin has been nominated for the UK’s Turner Prize for contemporary art partly for their exhibition that opened in November 2021 at Hong Kong’s Blindspot Gallery.
Sin, who identifies as non-binary and prefers to be referred to by the pronouns “they” and “their”, is one of four artists commended for their solo exhibitions this year, announced Tate Britain, which organises the award, on Tuesday.
“Drawing on their own experience existing between binary categories, their work realises fictional narratives to describe lived realities of desire, identification and consciousness,” the Tate statement said.
This year’s nominees also include Heather Phillipson, best known in Britain for her artwork displayed in London’s Trafalgar Square of a giant swirl of replica whipped cream, topped with a sculpted cherry, fly and drone.
