Tsang Kin-Wah

The dynamic, text-based video installations created by Tsang Kin-Wah (1976, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China) consider the important political, religious and philosophical questions of life, and are often bleak, if not apocalyptic. Religion also plays an important role in Kin-Wah’s life and work. His personal philosophy is that faith, and the Christian faith in particular, offers an opinion on human behaviour, which by definition is intrinsically bad.

Since 2009 Kin-Wah has been working on The Seven Seals, a series of seven digital video installations based on the Book of Revelation. In this New Testament book, God’s seven apocalyptic punishments are revealed: the terrors that humankind will suffer before the second coming of Christ.

The Fourth Seal – HE Is To No Purpose And HE Wants To Die For The Second Time (2010-2015) was exhibited in De Meelfabriek. Plague, hunger and war will curse the earth. The Bible texts are combined with historical sources taken from the western and eastern world to form new word constellations. The words start by moving seamlessly across the floor before ending up in intricate, disoriented tangles.

Tsang Kin-Wah lives and works in Hong Kong, China.