Screening und Talk mit Tiffany Sia: Als Du Dir der Welt der Erwachsenengeheimnisse bewusst wurdest

In the organizer's words:

How are stories told that defy official narratives and which secrets can the cinematic preserve and which not?

The evening opens with a screening of "A Child Already Knows" (2024), Tiffany Sia's most recent short film. The work combines cartoon footage from the early Mao era with the memories of a child who, in a time of intense political uncertainty, begins to sense the secrets of adults. In the subsequent artist talk - the first in Germany - Sia uses references to film, literature, psychoanalysis and documentary theory to create a framework for how the floating, pre-ideological perspective of the child opens up space for stories characterized by shame, denial and political complexity.

The event takes place in the context of the exhibition "Carrying. Four video works from Sia's "Scroll Figures" series can be seen at the window between the museum space and the public space - including two new works created especially for the exhibition.

Tiffany Sia (*1988, Hong Kong) is an artist, filmmaker and author based in New York. Her films have been shown at the New York Film Festival, MoMA's Doc Fortnight and the TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, among others. She has had solo exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; and Mudam, Luxembourg. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; the Argo Factory: Pejman Foundation, Tehran; the Seoul Museum of Art; and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Sia is the author of On and Off-Screen Imaginaries (Primary Information, 2024) and received the Baloise Art Prize in 2024.