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OHYUNG: now i close my eyes the world i see is so beautiful

by April Lin 林森

Before watching, please take some time to think about the people you have descended from, and the places across the planet which your heritage traverses.
You may know some of your ancestors, and there will be many more which you do not know by name or consciousness alone.
Your ancestors may have travelled across oceans or continents, or deepened the same paths through generations of revisiting them.

These bridges can feel all too invisible, although they are there with us, in the everyday.
What bridges connect you to those who have come before? Are they easy to cross, and what awaits you, if you should fall?
Is there something that you can use as an anchor — a smell? a taste? a memory? a look? the shape of an absence?
Hold on to your anchor, and let it ground you, as I share my crossing with you.

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OHYUNG: now i close my eyes the world i see is so beautiful

April Lin 林森

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Artist Bio

April Lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm — they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator investigating image-making and world-building as sites for the construction, sustenance, and dissemination of co-existent yet conflicting truths. Working across moving image, performance, creative computing and installation, they dream & explore & critique & fret & catastrophise & imagine & play — for a collective remembering of forgotten pasts, for a critical examination of normalised presents, and for a visualising of freer futures as, of course, imagined from the periphery. Uniting their genre-fluid body of work is a commitment to centring oppressed knowledges, building an ethics of collaboration around reciprocal care, and exploring the linkages between history, memory, and interpersonal and structural trauma. Their work has been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image New York, Sheffield DocFest, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, the V&A Museum, HOME, Malmö Konstmuseum, LA Filmforum, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, MADATAC, Arebyte Gallery, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, NOWNESS Asia, and 4:3 Boiler Room.

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Before watching, please take some time to think about the people you have descended from, and the places across the planet which your heritage traverses.
You may know some of your ancestors, and there will be many more which you do not know by name or consciousness alone.
Your ancestors may have travelled across oceans or continents, or deepened the same paths through generations of revisiting them.

These bridges can feel all too invisible, although they are there with us, in the everyday.
What bridges connect you to those who have come before? Are they easy to cross, and what awaits you, if you should fall?
Is there something that you can use as an anchor — a smell? a taste? a memory? a look? the shape of an absence?
Hold on to your anchor, and let it ground you, as I share my crossing with you.

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