Shuang Li, Alliance, 2026, video still. Courtesy the artist and Antenna Space, Shanghai.
Kim Association, a project space dedicated to contemporary transnational Asian art, announces its second presentation: Alliance, the first solo exhibition in Southeast Asia by Berlin- and Wuyi-based artist Shuang Li. The exhibition will run from 21 January through 22 March 2026.
This newly commissioned video installation explores storm chasing, a phenomenon rooted in the American landscape yet increasingly witnessed globally through livestreaming and new media platforms. An exploration of Li’s encounter with accelerated digital flows, extreme weather systems, and the erosion of boundaries between physical and virtual life, the work repositions storm chasing from its North American origins as a universal metaphor for navigating spiralling forces – namely algorithmic media and the commodification of lived experience – that shape contemporary experience across borders.
The exhibition takes its title from Alliance, Nebraska, a town broadly made up of trainyards where Li passed through during her storm-chasing journey. Drawing from her ongoing fascination with non-spaces as existential conditions rather than physical locales, the installation evokes the experience of being aboard a high-speed train in China, where one feels the tension and sensation of being perfectly still while hurtling forward, mirroring our highly mediated reality where one can anonymously witness distant disasters in real time from home.
Venue: Kim Association, 63 Kim Yam Rd, Singapore 239364
When: 21 Jan - 22 Mar 2026, By appointment
By: Kim Association
