Timur Si-Qin

Timur Si-Qin, Prayer to Four Winds, Video loop animation 2, 2021, Courtesy of the artist

Timur Si-Qin, Prayer to Four Winds, Video loop animation 2, 2021, Courtesy of the artist

The significance of prayer to the cardinal directions is an ancient cross-cultural trait shared by many Indigenous cultures throughout the world, including Central Asia, Indigenous Americas, and even Indigenous pre-Christian Europe. In Lakota culture, praying to the four directions of the medicine wheel represents prayer to all the beings: animals, rocks, mountains, plants, winds, waters, lands, and people before you, in each direction. But importantly these beings are regarded as relatives, and therefore praying to the directions represents ones connection to all the life, land, and ancestors you share space in the universe with. Global culture finds itself today in a state of disorientation, out of balance with land and nature and unable to navigate the future. Lost is a clear sense of scale or connection to earth systems. Perhaps a re-orientation starts with a simple acknowledgment of space and direction. This work is made in 3d software and is part of my larger practice of rendering scenes from nature. The process of simulating nature is a meditative practice that challenges me to look ever closer at the beauty, language, and detail of the natural world.


Timur Si-Qin’s interests in the evolution of culture, the dynamics of cognition, and contemporary philosophy, weave together to create a new kind of environmental art. Taking form through diverse media, installations of 3D printed sculptures, light-boxes, websites, texts, and virtual reality, Si-Qin’s work often challenges common notions of the organic vs the synthetic, the natural vs the cultural, the human vs non-human, and other dualisms at the heart of western consciousness. Si-Qin’s long term meta-project is the proposal of a new secular faith in the face of climate change, global pandemics, and biodiversity collapse, called New Peace. Through New Peace individual works aggregate into a hyper-distributed, branded ecosystem of signifiers. Drawing from disparate disciplines like the anthropology of religion, marketing psychology, and new materialist philosophy, Si-Qin regards spiritualities as cultural softwares capable of deep behavioral and political intervention. New Peace is thus a new protocol for the necessary renegotiation of our conceptual and spiritual relationship with the non-human. New Peace is an artwork, a church, a brand, and a memetic machine. Si-Qin is a New York-based artist of German and Mongolian-Chinese descent who grew up in Berlin, Beijing, and in the American Southwest. Recent exhibitions include Von Ammon Co., Washington D.C., Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art 2, the 2019 Asian Art Biennale, the 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, 9th Berlin Biennale, 9th Taipei Biennial, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, Spazio Maiocchi, Milan, The Highline, NY, and Magician Space, Beijing.

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