Lim Sokchanlina works across documentary and conceptual practices with photography, video, side specific installation and performance. Using different strategies, he calls attention to a variety of social, political, cultural, economic and environmental changes in Cambodia. Lim is a founding and active member of the artist collective Stiev Selapak / Art Rebels, who co-founded the exhibitions spaces Sa Sa Art Gallery, SA SA BASSAC and Sa Sa Art Projects, a community-based, knowledge-sharing platform and experimental residency program. He recently helped establish Analogue Prints Laboratory, the first public-access darkroom in Phnom Penh. Lim’s recent exhibitions include Phantasmapolis: 2021 Asian Art Biennal at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan; Singapore Biennale in 2019, Wrapped Future II, NCA Nichodo Contemporary Gallery Tokyo in 2019, Bangkok Art Biennale in 2018, Sydney Biennale 2018, This Life of Thing, Esplanade Singapore in 2018, and Sunshower: Contemporary Art From Southeast Asia 1980s To Now, Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo in 2017. His works are found in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan. He lives and works in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

 


Selected Artworks

Lim Sokchanlina

Rising Tonle Sap #1, 2012

Inkjet print on fine art paper

80 cm x 115 cm, Edition 3/5 + 1 AP
Lim Sokchanlina

Rising Tonle Sap #4, 2012

Inkjet print on fine art paper

80 cm x 115 cm, Edition 1 of 5 + 2AP
Lim Sokchanlina

Wrapped Future II, 2019

Video and sound

14 minutes 43 seconds loop, Edition 3/5
Lim Sokchanlina

National Road No. 5, 2020

Digital print on Ilford Smooth Cotton Rag

60 cm x 90 cm
Lim Sokchanlina

National Road No. 5, 2020

Digital print on Ilford smooth cotton rag

60 cm x 90 cm, Edition 1 of 5 + 2AP