Being Lost, Being Found by Lim Shengen
25 July - 8 August 2009
BOXED“To claim a real space through unrealized space” – in a world where lack of space is increasingly growing.
Being Lost, Being Found, is the debut solo exhibition of artist Lim Shengen. Showcasing the hybrid nature of his practice, the exhibition consists an oeuvre of work researched and produced over the span of the last three years. It presents visions of contemporary and accelerated urban living. Based on observations of being lost, Void: Physical, Metaphysical is the main highlight of this exhibition. The installation of multiple light projections offers a static reality that is simulated. The series of photographic images displayed are a collection of landscapes that the artist has wander to in his travels, claiming real space through unrealized space. Boxed, photographs a metaphorical approach toward a metaphysical state by individuals and group of people captured in their habitat. The portraiture series references human gestures captured in historical Daguerreotype prints where sitters of portraiture taken then, look silenced as they are caught by new technology. The works exhibited act as a commentary on the increasing lack of space in modern times and proposes models of coping within an alternative reality.
