Biography
Sissi Kaplan is a visual artist working with photography, video and text. Her work focuses on the fictionalisation of the everyday, employing solitude, emptiness and her own performing body to transfigure found situations and reveal hidden aspects of human nature. Her work has been presented at film festivals and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, Berlin, Naples, Johannesburg, and Kuala Lumpur. She lives and works in Hong Kong.
You can contact Sissi here.
Exhibitions
• Under one Moon, The Catalyst, Hong Kong, 16/3-12/5/2024
• The Giant’s Foot Scrubber, Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong, 3/2-9/3/2024
• Detachment Issues, Current Plans, Hong Kong, 15/9-1/10/2023
• ~ ripple_proj: onsite 01, Bangkok University Gallery (BUG), Bangkok, 17/3-6/5, 2023
• Nowhere Here, Singapore International Photography Festival, 16/9-30/10/2022
• Interstitium, Lorong 24A Shophouse Series, Singapore, 27-28/3/2015
Screenings/Events
• 77 Days: An Experience Report book reading with Sam I-shan and film screening of I am Still Here and Under One Moon,
Anti-Archive, Phnom Penh, 21/09/2024
• 77 Days: An Experience Report book reading with Simon van de Sande and screening of I am Still Here and Under One Moon,
Welcome Lim-Kong Society, Taipei, 29/6/2024
• Book Presentation: 77 Days: An Experience Report, 旭荘, Osaka, 9/6/2024
• Book Reading: 77 Days: An Experience Report, The Catalyst, Hong Kong, 23/3/2024
• I am Still Here, Image Movement : Photography and Cinema, Photo Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, 30/10/2022
• Inspirational Ghost, Singapore Shorts: Official Selection '18, National Museum, Singapore, 15/7/2018
• About Emptiness, NImman Film Festival, Chiang Mai, 18/2/2017
• About Emptiness, Liminal perceptions, KLEX – Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur, 26/11/2016
• About Emptiness, SOMNAMBULES (Somnambulists), Musee des Beaux-Arts Rennes, Rennes, 21-22/5/2016
• About Emptiness, International Short Film Competition 8, 29th Filmwinter, Stuttgart, 17/01/2016
• The Incident, Nuit Blanche, Paris, 05/10/2013
• The Incident, i.boat, Bordeaux, 17/9/2013
• The Incident, Incubate, Tilburg, 19/9/2013
• The Incident, Magmart, International Videoart Festival (online), Naples, 2013
• The Incident, Impakt Festival, The Village, Utrecht, 24-28/10/2012
• The Incident, Urban/Flux Film Festival, The Bioscope Independent Cinema, Johannesburg, 17-23/9/2012
• The Incident, Human Frames, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin, 13-17/06/2012
Publications/Reviews
• Sissi Kaplan — 77 Days: An Experience Report, Hong Kong, 2024
• Virginie Puertolas-Syn, Art Basel Hong Kong 2024 Highlights, Artlyst, London, 2024
• 陈玺安, Critic’s Picks, Artforum China, New York, 2024
• Inflatables, Exit Magazine #91, Portfolio Section, Madrid, 2023
• ~ ripple_proj, Videostream by Expensive to be Poor (online), Bangkok, 2023
• Arthur Sim, Art in odd places and the artists who are breaking urban boundaries, The Straits Times, Singapore 2022
• Rachel, People, Places, Feelings, Things: The Singapore International Photography Festival at Peace Centre,
AlienSpaceCrab, Singapore 2022
• Sissi Kaplan: In Glorious Technicolour, PluralArt Mag, Singapore, 2020
• Vinita Ramani, Case #362 tells us, Rice Media, Singapore, 2020
• Melissa Noelle Esguerra, Reviews: Singapore Shorts '18 Day 03 (2017-2018), SINdie, Singapore, 2018
• Filzah Yahaya, Beyond Loss: Between Us Two, Away and Inspirational Ghost, Asian Film Archive, Singapore 2018
• Human Frames – Desire, Lowave, Paris, 2011
