Before formally studying art in school, Sin designed flyers for queer events and painted murals in clubs, which eventually led to their drag performance practice as V Sin. Initially keeping their artistic practice distinct from their drag performance, the artist eventually merged the two through works of video like Tell me everything you saw, and what you think it means (2018), and later began to introduce new drag characters like “The Storyteller” and “The One” into their films. Expertly mimicking the standardized aesthetics of boy bands and K-Pop in the video and installation It’s Always You (2021), the artist performs as “Wai King,” “The Universe,” “The One,” and “The Storyteller,” each embodying a classic boy band trope like “the bad boy” or “the shy one”. In doing so, Sin highlights how ideas of masculinity are created and performed to appeal to consumers and sell products. In the video A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021), the artist draws on Taoist allegory and the fixed character roles of Cantonese and Peking opera, as a voiceover narrates the central characters’ fluid relationships to rigid dichotomies like inside and outside, self and other, or dreaming and waking. “There are so many ways we split ourselves into binaries and categories, and actually all of these things, all of these systems, are connected,” Sin says.

Using large film crews and television studios, the artist works within the very structures and environments that they subvert in their own films. In Today’s Top Stories (2020), the artist performs as “The Storyteller” behind a mock news desk, using the conventions of news television to deliver philosophical propositions about identity, time, and reality. Likewise, Time of Our Lives (2024) is a two-channel installation that mimics the filming and format of a sitcom, following the lives of the characters “V Sin” and “Wai King” as a married American couple on one screen, while showing the studio audience watching the sitcom on the other. As the video progresses, time begins to break down, and moments like their wedding, pregnancy, and eventual deaths occur in a nonlinear fashion that confuses memory with the present, emphasizing how our experience of time is constructed. “Our nature, our beliefs, our ethics, are all narratives,” the artist says. “Storytelling not only represents, but creates realities.” By using and misusing narrative storytelling, the artist reimagines our relationship to truth, reality, and normativity, inviting a more expansive understanding of ourselves and identities.