Charles Lim
Charles Lim Yi Yong studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design London, graduating in 2001. In 2002, he participated in Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany as a member of the net-art collective, tsunami.net. A former professional and Olympic sailor, Lim’s practice stems from an intimate, bodily engagement with the natural world, mediated and informed by field research and experimentation, performance, drawing, photography, and video. Since 2005 he has developed a body of work entitled SEA STATE that explores Singapore’s political, biophysical, and psychic contours through the visible and invisible lenses of the sea. Recent iterations of SEA STATE have been exhibited at Manifesta 7 in 2008, the Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne, France in 2013, and at biennales in Shanghai, Singapore, and Osaka. Lim’s moving image works have been screened in international film festivals in Rotterdam, Tribeca, and Edinburgh. His award-winning short film All the Lines Flow Out premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival, winning a Special Mention award. He lives and works in Singapore.
