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Exhibition at Phnom Penh International Airport
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Wrapped Future by Lim Sokchanlina | Opening 3 March 6-8pm
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Wrapped Future by Lim Sokchanlina_Press
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SA SA BASSAC is pleased to
announce Wrapped Future, a solo
exhibition and limited edition artist book by Lim Sokchanlina.
Fences. Makeshift enclosures. Dividing lines. These
increasingly present indicators of change define much of Phnom Penh’s
topography today. Since the onset of heightened urban construction in 2009, Lim
Sokchanlina became interested in the border-making practices of national
development schemes that promise a better “New Phnom Penh”. Repeat visits to
especially contentious sites provoked his questioning not only the physical
borders but also their psychological ability to divide public and private, past
and future, known and unknown.
Says the artist, “The land enclosed is no longer a
presence, as if what was destroyed at these sites no longer matter. Memory has
been traded for development. What will be erected with a strict belief that the
future is the only concern? These fences are wrapping the future, standing in
place of what was forgotten or never even known.”
With both archival and artistic impulse, Lim
photographs these temporary partitions. Carefully composed under the brightness
of midday sunlight, his corrugated color fields flatten the imposing fences
into mundane facades. Colors, patterns, dents, rust, dirt, and markings invite
a painterly inspection, while titles serve to keep a record of what was where
when. The ghost of a landmark colonial building is remembered in Former Ministry of Tourism, Sothearos
Boulevard and Sisowath Quay, 2009.Cambodia’s iconic Corbusier-trained
architect Vann Molyvann’s work is mourned in Former Preah SuramaritNational Theatre, National Assembly
Street, 2009. Communities of displaced people are honored in Former Borei Keila,
South Wall, Czechoslavakia Boulevard, between Street 152 and Street 164, 2012
Lim’s solo exhibition Wrapped
Future, based on his photographic series under the same name, is a bold and
minimalist installation of real and representational borders. A commanding
corrugated metal fence blocks access to the majority of the large gallery space,
forcing the urban panorama onto the visitor. In the smaller space one
relatively quiet photograph of a fence hangs and a new book of the photographic
series can also be paged through. Here, isolated to the image, away from their
bustling surroundings and ephemeral fate, the fences become permanent, recorded
landmarks. As such, what they conceal, and ultimately what they will reveal,
can be called into question.
About the Artist
Lim Sokchanlina (born Prey Veng, 1987) works across documentary
and conceptual practices with photography, installation and performance. Using
different strategies, he calls attention to a variety of social, cultural,
economic and environmental changes in Cambodia resulting from globalization. He is a founding and active member of the artist collective Stiev
Selepak / Art Rebels. Lim has exhibited widely in Cambodia, including at the
National Museum and solo show My
Motorbike and Me(PhotoPhnomPenh, 2009). Group exhibitions
in 2012 include Rupture and Revival:
Cambodian Photography in the Last Decade, Institute of Contemporary Arts
Singapore; Between Fantasy and Reality,
Contact Photo Festival, The East Gallery, Toronto; Riverscapes IN FLUX, a regional exhibition in Hanoi, Ho Chi Min
City, Manilla, Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Jakarta.
.
About SA SA BASSAC
SA
SA BASSAC is a gallery and resource center dedicated to creating, facilitating,
producing, and sharing contemporary visual culture in and from Cambodia.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition: Wrapped Future by Lim Sokchanlina
Opening: Saturday 3 March, 6:00-8:00PM
Exhibition Dates: 3 March, 2012– 1 April, 2012
Artist Talk: Monday 12 March 6-7.30pm in Khmer and English
Opening Hours: Thu-Fri 2-6pm + Sat-Sun 10am-6pm
Location: SA SA BASSAC #18 2nd Floor, Sothearos Blvd
Web: www.sasabassac.com
Contact: Erin Gleeson, Director, +855(0)12507917
Khmarnival 2012
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
and next?
the khmarnaval 012 just closed down, we can say that it had been the biggest till now, more than lot of blah blah i let you look at the result….
and next? we are in PSE Phnom Penh for the safe drive project… 10 days of shows, games and our tunnel of sensation…
sorry i have to go back to the race….
le khmarnaval 0&é vien juste de finir, on peut dire que ça a été le plus gros jusqu'ici, plutôt que de vous afficher un long blah blah descriptif je vous laisse regarder le résultat… Et ensuite? ben, on est dans le centre de PSE Phnom Penh pour le projet de prévention routière… 10 jours de spectacles, jeux et notre tunnel à sensations….
désolé mais je dois reprendre la course….
bob.passion
2012 US Election Kickoff & Democrats Abroad Cambodia Annual Meeting
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
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