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1991 (PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2026)

DATE

7 to 10 MAY 2026

VENUE

Shanghai Exhibition Center
No.1000 Yan’an Middle Road
Jing’an District
Shanghai, China

Exhibition Booth: W02

ADMISSION

Ticket admission apply.

About

Time unfolds as an unending sequence of images—fleeting, layered, and continually reassembled through memory. Recollection, shaped by emotion and shifting perspectives, becomes a site of constant transformation, where narratives remain open, provisional, and incomplete.

At 22, filmmaker Tan Pin Pin traveled to China to trace her cultural roots. Today, this journey re-emerges as Someday (总有一天)—an exquisite, calendar-like work of tactile prints that invite audiences to touch, handle, and unfold each page, gradually revealing 80 intimate photographs. In dialogue with this, artist Shi Yangkun revisits the same year through archival found footage in A Glimpse of Singapore (1991). Reframed through contemporary lenses, his multi-channel video offers a poignant view shaped by state narratives and mediated observation.

Together, these works approach 1991 not as a singular history, but as a constellation of perspectives—personal and collective, remembered and constructed. They invite us to consider how images endure, and how they continue to shape the stories we tell.

Event Details

Presented at PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai 2026

VIP Preview
7 May, 14:00 – 20:00
8 May, 12:00 – 20:00

Public Opening 
9 May, 12:00 – 20:00
10 May, 11:00 – 18:00

Featuring

Shi Yangkun

Shi Yangkun

Artist

Shi Yangkun (b.1992) lives and works in Shanghai. His practice engages with archives, images, objects and sites, using personal experience to reveal the power perspectives embedded in historical narratives and to explore how they continue to shape the present. His works were exhibited at the Forschungscampus Dahlem, Berlin (2026); Goethe-Institut Beijing (2025); A4 Art Museum (2025); Stadtmuseum Berlin (2024); Zhejiang Art Museum (2023); Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (2023); and the Peabody Essex Museum (2022). His works are held in public collections at the Peabody Essex Museum, the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation, and the Zhejiang Art Museum.
Tan Pin Pin

Tan Pin Pin

Artist

Tan Pin Pin is an award-winning Singaporean filmmaker and artist known for exploring history, memory, and representation. Her films have screened internationally at festivals like Berlinale and Busan, and venues including Harvard and Netflix. Notable works include Singapore GaGa (2005), Invisible City (2007), and To Singapore, with Love (2013), which was banned in Singapore. Her projects span film and public art, such as walk walk (2023). A Northwestern University graduate and Student Academy Award winner, she also mentors emerging filmmakers and contributes активно to Singapore’s film community.