In Search of Raffles' Light | An Art Project with Charles Lim
In Search of Raffles' Light | An Art Project with Charles Lim, Gallery Impressions, 2013, NUS Museum
Exhibition period: 24 Oct 2013 - 27 Apr 2014
Venue: NX Gallery, NUS Museum
Attempting to remember
histories attached to sites related to Singapore’s seas, In Search of Raffles’ Light is an interdisciplinary project guided
by the Raffles Lighthouse (estd. 1854) as an evolving metaphor to chart how and
where history intersects with the present. Responding to a series of
correspondence which outlines the beginnings of a maritime museum in Singapore
following independence from the British, this exhibition presents new works developed
by Singapore artist Charles Lim, and mobilises everyday objects, museum
artefacts, archival texts and maps, photographs, paintings and prints that
range from the national to the personal, the archaeological to the biological, and
the historical to the present. Understood in this light, the exhibition may be
seen as a polyvocal attempt at illuminating the complexities between
contemporary practice, museums, and their cultural artefacts.
About
the Artist
Charles Lim
Yi Yong is a former professional sailor who represented
Singapore in the 1996 Olympics and sailed in the 2007 America’s Cup. In
between these commitments, he graduated from Central Saint Martin’s School
of Art and Design, London with a B.A. in Fine Art (2001). Lim went on to
co-found the seminal net art collective, tsunamii.net, which
participated in Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany (2002). Combining his knowledge
of the sea and his love for making images, he then embarked on the SEA STATE
series, an ongoing body of work that has been exhibited at Manifesta 7 (2008),
the Shanghai Biennale (2008), and most recently at the Singapore Biennale
(2011). Lim’s moving image works have been screened at the International Film
Festival Rotterdam, the Tribeca Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival.
His 2011 short film All The Lines
Flow Out premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival, winning a Special
Mention, the first award ever won there by a Singaporean production. The
piece has since received three more awards at other international
festivals.
Curators: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Kenneth Tay and Fiona Tan
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