Don’t miss the conversation between newly Turner Prize-nominated artist Sin Wai Kin and fellow artist Tai Shan inside our latest issue
. “I’ve reached a huge turning point in my practice recently,” Kin says of their 2021 work It’s Always You (pictured, featuring a boyband made up of masculine drag characters. “It sees a move from exploring femininity through drag to exploring fantasy with masculinity. Previously I was interrogating this relationship with western femininity, asking how much of my desire was socialised and whether it was possible to undo the conditioning of wanting to be a white woman. Now, I don’t want to make drag about what I want to take off, I want to make drag about what I’m putting on.” Purchase Elephant 47 now to read on.
