An exhibition by Grace Baey
Recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Award, Emerging Category (2018)
Mentored by Sim Chi Yin

Exhibition period | 13 Mar to 14 Apr 2019

Resources:
Read a recap of the artist talk here.

Press:
The Straits Times: Photography exhibition sheds light on the lives of transgender people
Coconuts Singapore: (Un)bound: Struggles and stories of individuals from SG’s transgender community captured by a local photographer

(Un)bound is a collaborative project that gives an intimate view into the lives of trans men and women living in Singapore. Through portraits, journal entries and scrapbooking, these stories reflect on experiences of struggle, resilience, and coping strategies amidst the challenges of gender norms in society.

This exhibition is the culmination of the Objectifs Documentary Award, Emerging Category. The Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. Selected by a panel of five judges, the awardees were given professional and financial support to work on their projects over a nine month-long period.

This project was first developed with the support of Exactly Foundation.

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About Grace Baey

Grace Baey is a Singapore-based photographer and videographer with an interest in social issues. A human geographer by training, she’s especially interested in questions of place, identity, and belonging. Her current work deals with issues of social marginalization, with focus on the transgender community in Southeast Asia and Singapore.

About the mentor

Sim Chi Yin is an artist whose research-based practice uses artistic and archival interventions to contest and complicate historiographies and colonial narratives. She works across photography, film, installation, performance and book-making.

She participated in the 60th Venice Biennale (2024) and has exhibited at the Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023); the Barbican, London (2023); Harvard Art Museums, Boston, USA (2021); Les Rencontres d’Arles, France (2021); Nobel Peace Museum, Oslo (2017), Arko Art Centre, Seoul (2016); Zilberman Gallery Berlin (2021); Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2019). She has also participated in the Istanbul Biennale (2022, 2017) and the Guangzhou Image Triennial ( 2021). Her work is in the collections of Harvard Art Museums, The J. Paul Getty Museum, M+ Hong Kong, Singapore Art Museum, and the National Museum Singapore. She was an artist fellow in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program (2022-3) and is completing a PhD at King’s College London.

Sim is represented by Zilberman Gallery in Berlin.