Eugenia Lim is an artist of Chinese-Singaporean ancestry who works across body, lens, social and spatial practice to explore how migration and capital cut, divide and bond our interdependent, planetary commons. An ongoing strand of practice considers work, collectivity, technology and ethics—and art and capital as strange bedfellows. Often a performer within her own works, Lim invents personas to explore the tensions of the individual within society—the alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Based on unceded lands in the Kulin Nation, Lim has exhibited, screened or performed at the Tate Modern (GBR), LOOP Barcelona (ESP), FIVA (AR), Recontemporary (IT), Kassel Dokfest (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art (AUS), ACCA (AUS), FACT Liverpool (GBR), EXiS (Seoul) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK).
She has been artist-in-residence with the Experimental Television Centre (USA), Bundanon Trust, 4A Beijing Studio (CN), Gertrude Contemporary, and she co-founded CHANNELS Festival. Collaboration, community and artist-led pedagogies fuel Lim’s work as board member at West Space, Composite Moving Image Agency, artist advisory committee member for NETS Victoria, founding membership of temporal art collective Tape Projects and teaching at the Victorian College of the Arts. Lim is a 2022 Sidney Myer Creative Fellow, and the winner of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Spring’s 2022 Deep Forest Art Land Award.
Sleep no more (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii)
2021
aluminium, steel, smelted Red Bull cans, Ritalin
200.0 x 60.0 x 60.0 cm
24/7
2021
installation view
Artificial Islands
2017
Installation view
Artificial Islands
2017
Installation and performance
ON DEMAND
2019
video still
ON DEMAND
2019
video still
The Ambassador suit
2015
custom gold lamé, textile
160.0 x 50.0 x 5.0 cm
Work Wear
2021
Poplin, reflective vinyl, thread
145.0 x 75.0 x 5.0 cm
Leisure Wear
2021
Poplin, reflective vinyl, thread, embroidered patches, polyester
145.0 x 75.0 x 5.0 cm
Olfactory
2021
Plastic, Red Bull, water, Amazon ‘Sleep Aid’ tablets
42.0 x 40.0 x 9.0 cm
Diurnal Nocturnal
2021
Two LED lights purchased off Amazon.com
22.0 x 9.0 x 10.0 cm
New Australians (Yellow Peril, 1980/2015); New Australians (Welcome Stranger 1869/2015)
2015
Screen print on mylar emergency blanket
210.0 x 160.0 cm
24/7
2021
installation view
24/7
2021
installation view
24/7
2021
installation view
24/7
2021
installation view
24/7
2021
installation view
24/7
2021
installation view
Sleep no more (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii)
2021
aluminium steel smelted Red Bull cans Ritalin
200.0 x 60.0 x 60.0 cm, detail
On Demand
2019
Installation view
On Demand
2019
Installation view
Leisure Wear
2021
Poplin reflective vinyl thread embroidered patches polyester
145.0 x 75.0 x 5.0 cm, detail
The Australian Ugliness (the leg)
2018
Digital C-type print
39.5 x 59.5 cm
The Australian Ugliness (selfie steps)
2018
Digital C-type print
39.5 x 59.5 cm
The Australian Ugliness (adhan)
2018
Digital C-type print
39.5 x 59.5 cm
The Australian Ugliness (Bondi sunbather)
2018
Digital C-type print
39.5 x 59.5 cm
The Australian Ugliness
2019
Installation view
Olfactory
2021
Plastic Red Bull water Amazon Sleep Aid tablets
42.0 x 40.0 x 9.0 cm
Leisure Wear
2021
Poplin reflective vinyl thread embroidered patches polyester
145.0 x 75.0 x 5.0 cm, detail
The Australian Ugliness
2018
Three-channel high-definition video, 33:58 mins
Women's Work
2017
Installation view
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
ON DEMAND
2019
single-channel video
14 mins
ON DEMAND
2019
single-channel video
14 mins