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. A Solo Exhibition by eunice lim

. A Solo Exhibition by eunice lim

Exhibition vEnuE: 15 minutes

blk D, #01-01, 1 mcnally street,

lasalle college of the arts,

singapore, singapore 187940

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INSTINC is proud to present Eunice Lim’s first solo exhibition “.”. Eunice Lim won Squares Invasion People’s Prize last year in October by a staggering 1000+ ‘likes’ on Facebook for her painting. The main objectives of Squares Invasion 50cm by 50cm Painting Show are to promote painting as an art form, which seems to be forgotten in this digital era and to create a platform for talented up-and-coming local

painters to showcase their works.

This series of works is inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Tree of Codes. Jonathan used the book as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages to arrive at an original new story. “Refreshing” is the word that comes to mind - this delightful series of paintings is derived from her sketches of her precious sketchbook. These works born out of chance, imagination and risk, which transformed into unpredictable compositions of shapes and text. The results are of an interesting play of

colour, positive and negative space.

Once again, thank you Kelley, for generously sponsoring the venue and the opening reception at 15 minutes. It has been a pleasure to collaborate with you on Squares Invasion and this project. I would also like to thank the artist, Eunice Lim for her great effort in creating these amazing whimsical works and designing all the publicity materials and this catalogue. Your enthusiasm and passion is an

inspiration.

“Every good painter paints what he is.” Jackson Pollock. I enjoyed the honesty and innocence in Eunice’s paintings in this exhibition. I hope you will love this exhibition

as much as I do.

Yeo ShIh YuNartist/Director of instinc

euNICe can draw. But in this show, she is not really drawing. She is re-presenting her own drawings. Originating from her personal sketchbooks, which she employed as a tool for both her process of thoughts and as a sub-conscious map for these eventual drawings. Exploring the relationship between copy and original, the planned and the unplanned, presenting and re-presenting, the young artist deconstructed the context of what is being produced on the pages of the sketchbook, and re-defined the relationships of these little doodles and writings to each other and re-contextualise them on the canvases.

Deconstruction, a big “trend” in the 80s, especially in architecture, is much avoided by the same architects who shot to fame for their works of distorted and de-contextualised forms. As the architects continue to build such abstract-looking buildings, deconstruction as a theory seems to lose favour with the critics and is seen as intellectual masturbation which now seems more like an excuse rather than a reason for architectural acobatics.

So, it is for better and for worse, that I say – Eunice is deconstructing her sketchbook (if we summarise simply the essence of deconstruction as the act of understanding a text through its relationships to various contexts). The better part of my above conclusion is that - I actually do not despise deconstruction as a theory in text, art or

architecture. In fact, I actually quite like it for the complexity and possibility it brings to making and reading text, art and architecture. In fact, my quarrel with this artist’s work is not the employment of deconstruction as a starting point, but that she didn’t bring it far enough with the possibilities. With such an abstract process and the promises of much more complex visual collage that can arise from the multi-layered multi-dimensional sketchbook, I find the resulting artwork, which is suddenly figurative, a much too simplistic solution for a process with enormous visual potential.

But having said that, I am optimistic that the artworks you see here is but only a starting point for Eunice. As the title of her show “.”,as explained in her won words “is to end a sentence with an option either to start another or to leave”. And while we look at these works, the most important thing you should be seeing is that here is a young artist who could have chosen to remain in her comfort zone and paint in the same old way that she is good at, but instead, she took an adventure in attempting a process which has lead her to a place that she has never been. I, for one, am enjoying this secret place that Eunice is sharing with us, and I hope that this is but a very small comma that will eventually lead us to an amazing kick-ass destination.

KelleY CheNgcreative Director/the press room

I believe the only reason that limits our capabilities

deals with our mind. It is only when we begin to

muster every ounce of courage to use our wildest

imagination, then our possibilities finally become

limitless.

Thoughts are constantly questioning, and answers

were never much answers; they mostly develop

into more questions. Thus, I explore what goes

through the human heart and mind, the process

and the result.

It is own its own, being in being.

– euNICe lIm

euNICe lIm (b. 1992, Singapore) has always been

intrigued about what goes through the human heart and

mind, thus it results her having a strong desire in exploring

and studying the intangible factors of a human being to

express it in visual art.

Eunice’s works revolves around how people’s thoughts,

emotions and decisions bring forth anticipation, relation

and interaction with the other. Her current approach

towards her works occurs in the form of sketchbooks.

Eunice is currently studying in Nanyang Academy of Fine

Arts, Diploma in Fine Arts with a Major in Western Painting.

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To end is to place a punctuation known as the full stop. It is to end a sentence with an option either start another or to leave. A message can sum up in a line to illustrate; a story could take a few more.

. is an exhibition of paintings derived from a sketchbook, portraying variations of how different pages with different subjects come together to create new stories. This series of works are results of several pages inter-playing with negative spaces that were jotted down within a period.

Eunice’s interest in how people’s thoughts and emotions bring forth anticipation and interaction is being reflected in the approach of the sketchbook. Exploring the significance where individuals from various backgrounds encounter with one another, similarly to a page in the sketchbook, results in one being open to influence and reform. As individuals divide and merge into something new, the exchange in that moment of conversation and experience is a reflection of the title “.” and the exhibition. It is in that period of encounter and exchange, new stories are thus being formed and created.

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. oNe“No flying because I’m stuck in a gallery.”

2012Acrylic on Canvas, 90 x 90 cm

. Two“Dear finding speech in the wild.”


. Three“Someone sat here, floating.”


. Four“The unit of Truth is not in the world.”


. FIve“Theory overloads kills.”


. SIx“Humans fly in holes.”


. SeveN“Lion bears rabbit.”


. eIghT“Sketching a man in the coffee cup.”


. NINe“Took a bus swimming.”


. TeN“Monster invading the city.”


. eleveN“Entity of animals we never are.”


. Twelve“I saw a sculpture, two humans, wrong.”


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CoNTaCT DeTaIlSEunice Lim Wei Mon(+65) 8111 [email protected]

eDuCaTIoNDiploma in Fine Arts (Western Painting)Nanyang Academy of Fine ArtGCE’O levelsPeirce Secondary School

awarDSSquare Invasion People's Prize, Ins TincTop in Art, GCE' O levels, Peirce Secondary School

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