april forrest lin 林森 (b. 1996, Stockholm — they/them) is an artist, independent curator, and film programmer investigating image-making and world-building as sites for the construction, sustenance, and dissemination of co-existent yet conflicting truths. Working across moving image, performance, creative computing, writing, and installation, they dream & explore & critique & fret & catastrophise & imagine & play — for a collective remembering of forgotten pasts, for a critical examination of normalised presents, and for a visualising of freer futures as, of course, imagined from the periphery.

Interweaving strands of auto-biography, documentary, queer ecology, and new media, april forrest lin 林森’s works are topped off with an inevitable garnish consisting of the other matters dialoguing with their brain and heart during the making process of each piece. Uniting their genre-fluid body of work is a commitment to centring oppressed knowledges, building an ethics of collaboration around reciprocal care, and exploring the linkages between history, memory, and interpersonal and structural trauma.

Their work has been shown at the Museum of the Moving Image New York, Sheffield DocFest, the V&A Museum, HOME, Malmö Konstmuseum, LA Filmforum, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, MADATAC, Arebyte Gallery, and Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival. Their curations of artist moving image works have been screened at Barbican Centre, Tate Britain, Wellcome Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, and Entre Film Centre. { guttural },,,{ fleshless }, their most recent group exhibition and public programme was co-curated in collaboration with Aki Hassan, featuring 5 artists from the East and Southeast Asian diaspora across the UK and Europe working with embodied knowledges.