Minouk Lim engages with the arteries of city life—the streets—to create poignant artworks that speak to individual alienation amid Seoul’s rapid development. Grounded in political activism and merging performance with video and documentary, the work of this Korean artist has been shown in increas... Read more
Minouk Lim engages with the arteries of city life—the streets—to create poignant artworks that speak to individual alienation amid Seoul’s rapid development. Grounded in political activism and merging performance with video and documentary, the work of this Korean artist has been shown in increasingly wider circles since she was awarded the Gwangju Bank Prize at the Gwangju Biennale in 2006 and the Hermes Korea Art Prize in 2007.
For her first in-depth US solo museum exhibition, the Walker presents a trio of Lim’s large-scale video installations. In New Town Ghost (2005), a slam poet with a megaphone raps from the back of a truck as it drives through a “new town” project in Seoul, deriding its indifferent citizens. S.O.S—Adoptive Dissensus (2009) follows nighttime passengers on a Han River cruise boat who encounter interludes staged on the riverbanks. An infrared camera records the warmth emanating from “pilgrims” traveling on a tour bus to restricted construction sites in The Weight of Hands (2010). As an outgrowth of Lim’s interest in capturing collective unconsciousness, these arresting and immersive multidisciplinary works highlight the often-ignored human cost and psychological toll of globalization.
Curator: Clara Kim
