![Image: Nanna Heitmann, from the series [Hiding from Baba Yaga] (detail), 2018. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Heitmann-HidingfromBabaYaga-19-200x160.jpg)
Sim Chi Yin (SG)
Most People Were Silent
20 February 2021 - 07 March 2021
![Image: Sim Chi Yin, from the series [Fallout] (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/SCY201710290533-SCY201711190208-200x70.jpg)
Image: Sim Chi Yin, from the series Fallout (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist.
Image: Sim Chi Yin, from the series Fallout (detail), 2017. Courtesy the artist.
When
20 February 2021 - 07 March 2021
Region
Inner North
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access, Accessible Toilets, Accessible Parking
Due to lockdown restrictions delaying installation of this exhibition, Most People Were Silent will now open on 20 February.
Shown for the first time in Australia, Magnum photographer Sim Chi Yin’s installation Most People Were Silent is a series of nuclear-related landscapes taken at the North Korea-China border, and the United States.
Ushering the viewer into the strikingly similar landscapes of both borders, Chi Yin suspends our sense of place, and leaves us in an ambiguous realm of reflection and imagination.
Commissioned in response to the Nobel Peace Prize 2017 winner—the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons—Most People Were Silent is a work that explores the states, confusions and consequences of history, memory, conflict and migration.
![Image: Ruth Maddison, [My parents gave me a colourful life (1976)], 2020.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ruth-Maddison-My-parents-gave-me-a-colourful-life-1976-inkjet-pint-on-rag-paper-2020-200x134.jpg)