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SIN WAI KIN

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“It felt like home,” Sin Wai Kin said effusively when asked about their monthlong trip to Hong Kong in November 2021. Born to a Hong Kong Chinese father and a White British mother, Sin grew up in Toronto and is now based in London. They have been to Hong Kong on several occasions, with their father as a child and later on as an artist, but never stopping for more than a week. This time, it was to launch their most ambitious solo exhibition to date, which also happened to be their first solo presentation in Asia, at Blindspot Gallery. Sin’s survey spanned works from 2016, when they finished their graduate

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