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Minouk Lim

Minouk Lim

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Minouk Lim (b. 1968), A Fulani Rhyme From West Africa, 2015

Minouk Lim (b. 1968)

A Fulani Rhyme From West Africa, 2015
Wood
32.28 x 17.32 inches
82 x 44 cm
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Minouk perceives broadcast room as both production space and art space because of the idea of memory and history; these two subjects are significant to her personal experiences, given her background of indirectly experiencing the Korean War and other incidents relating to the war. The placement of individual sculptural objects within this fictional broadcast room came from the idea of Minouk's own imagination—the hope for the communication with each other that has been lost or cannot be found. This notion of bringing communication back came from her subjective experience of Korean War and the divided nation in which her and her parents has lived through. Every binary—whether it's about North and South Korea, Left or Right, older generation and younger generation—needs communication to come up with a resolution that would dissolve any anger and hatred that has been built up. A sense of lost, despair, and unknown can be felt walking through these ambiguous and abstract objects that are more or less nameless and identity-less. The background of this notion of loss and emphasis on communication derived from her encounter with "Finding Dispersed Families" broadcasted in 1983. The scene of lost families occupying the whole broadcast room came to Minouk as a shock. To Minouk there was a hidden agenda: Dictator Chun's effort to earn the heart of citizens back by offering them a chance to see the lost families, while simultaneously criticizing North Korea's communism. This potentially brought visibility back to these people, but the government having its own agency evinces disconnection with the public. For Minouk, the broadcast room provides a meeting point for communication.
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Minouk perceives broadcast room as both production space and art space because of the idea of memory and history; these two subjects are significant to her personal experiences, given her background of indirectly experiencing the Korean War and other incidents relating to the war. The placement of individual sculptural objects within this fictional broadcast room came from the idea of Minouk's own imagination—the hope for the communication with each other that has been lost or cannot be found. This notion of bringing communication back came from her subjective experience of Korean War and the divided nation in which her and her parents has lived through. Every binary—whether it's about North and South Korea, Left or Right, older generation and younger generation—needs communication to come up with a resolution that would dissolve any anger and hatred that has been built up. A sense of lost, despair, and unknown can be felt walking through these ambiguous and abstract objects that are more or less nameless and identity-less. The background of this notion of loss and emphasis on communication derived from her encounter with "Finding Dispersed Families" broadcasted in 1983. The scene of lost families occupying the whole broadcast room came to Minouk as a shock. To Minouk there was a hidden agenda: Dictator Chun's effort to earn the heart of citizens back by offering them a chance to see the lost families, while simultaneously criticizing North Korea's communism. This potentially brought visibility back to these people, but the government having its own agency evinces disconnection with the public. For Minouk, the broadcast room provides a meeting point for communication.
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Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist

Exhibitions

Minouk Lim: Mamour, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, 2017

2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2017

10th Taipei Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan, 2016

The Promise of If, Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, 2015

Literature

The Promise of If, Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2015

pp. 88-89

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