Lure is a three-screen videogame-based installation reflecting upon the power and influence of popular media from the artist’s youth. Drawing particularly from anime’s Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura which had female protagonists and the Gameboy’s Pokemon Crystal which allowed users to select a female character for the first time.

The work explores the hyper-resonance of this imagery, considering how it struck a chord for the artist as depictions of Asiatic femininity which were largely absent from her lived environment. It seeks to show how virtual experiences permeate into physical reality, leaving marks, traces and manifestations within our sense of identity.

On 14th June, at 4pm Sian will perform a live play through of Lure where she will dive deep into her memories of virtual worlds, unpacking her experiences navigating digital spaces and discussing how these encounters influenced her ideas of self. 

Sian Fan is an award winning interdisciplinary artist working between Essex and London where she is artist in residence at Somerset House Studios. From 2021-22 she was the Digital Wonderlands artist in residence at the V&A Museum. She is also alumna of Sarabande Foundation where she was in residence from 2020-21. A graduate of the Fine Art Masters course at Central Saint Martins, she was awarded the prestigious Mona Hatoum Scholarship and was nominated for the Nova Award. In 2014 she graduated from the University of Brighton's BA Performance and Visual Art Dance course, where she was awarded the prize for Outstanding Creative Achievement.
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She has exhibited internationally with institutions including Tate Modern, Mutek, FACT Liverpool, and the V&A, as well as producing work with Channel 4, the BBC and Facebook/Meta. Most recently she has produced a new commission for the major exhibition CUTE at Somerset House. Sian also does lectures, seminars and discussions and has worked with universities, schools and institutions including UAL, V&A Museum, Norwich University of the Arts, Goldsmiths, DanceEast and Whitechapel Gallery.