Sim Chi Yin One Day We’ll Understand

im Chi Yin’s project (2015–) began with the artist’s interest in her paternal grandfather Shen Huansheng’s personal history during Malaya’s anti-colonial, communist insurgency—coined the “Malayan Emergency” by the British. Shen’s involvement in the communist movement resulted in his exile from Malaya to China in 1949, and, ultimately, his execution by the nationalist Kuomintang army. For 60 years, his life and death were not discussed