2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Tin Kei Kei

	Tin Kei Kei Installation View
	Tin Kei Kei Attraction 2 2022 15' x 9' x 7', weather balloon, air, string, nails
	Tin Kei Kei In the Rocks of Your Body, I Found Religion 2021 4'3'' x 27.5'', 7:10, single channel video with sound on the wall
	Tin Kei Kei In the Rocks of Your Body, I Found Religion 2021 4'3'' x 27.5'', 7:10, single channel video with sound on the wall
	Tin Kei Kei Open Gates 38' x 13'6'' x 4'', plaster, sound-proof bubbles mat
	Tin Kei Kei Installation View
	Tin Kei Kei Open Gates 38' x 13'6'' x 4'', plaster, sound-proof bubbles mat
	Tin Kei Kei Installation View
	Tin Kei Kei In a Space in Between 2022 63'' x 47'' x 11'', aluminum, aluminum oxide, fishing line New Morning 2019 8'4'' x 6'8'', single channel video on wall

About the Installation

The Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present Tin Kei Kei: 剎那, a multi-media installation of works that come together to form relationships and moments of alienation within shifting moments in time, opening February 14–17, 2022.

剎那 (ksana) means “an instant” or “in a split second.” The concept comes from the Buddhist scripture, Humane King Sutra: "a flick of a finger takes sixty split seconds, and nine hundred births and extinguishes in one split second." This awareness of many things happening within a split second, many meanings within minimal materials, many feelings within fleeting relationships, is activated in Tin’s visually poetic works.

Tin Kei Kei’s conceptual art practice lives in the contexts of nature and technology, revealing and provoking power structures and conflicts of culture intersections, as she embeds those discussions into the works and through the conversations they generate. She focuses on shifting perspectives to engage transformation in the ways we recognize reality, by using performance, installation, and video works to create new realities that overlap observation and philosophical thinking. In the process of making work, Tin proposes a both bodily and socially experimental space for you to enter and make conversation in.

Tin drives her body as both a social and spiritual vehicle, traveling through connected themes of animacy, spirituality, physicality, and materiality. The artist’s immersive install incorporates her recent sculpture, installation, and video works to narrate her imagining and encountering of social experiences, identity markers and other ideas of social positioning.

Tin Kei Kei was born and raised in Macau, China. She came to America in 2014 and now lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She recently received her Master’s degree in Fine Art from Otis College of Art and Design.