Lim Sokchanlina
Lim Sokchanlina (b. 1987, Cambodia) works across documentary and conceptual practices with photography, video, installation and performance. Using different strategies, he calls attention to a variety of social, political, geopolitical, cultural, economic, and environmental changes in Cambodia in relation to the world. Lim is a founding and active member of the artist collective Stiev Selapak / Art Rebels (2007–), who co-founded the exhibition spaces Sa Sa Art Gallery (2009–2010) and SA SA BASSAC (2011–), as well as Sa Sa Art Projects, a community-based, knowledge-sharing platform and experimental residency program (2010–).
Lim Sokchanlina’s notable solo and group exhibitions include: documenta 15, Kassel, Germany, 2022; Storytellers –Through the lens of contemporaneity: Vol.1 Sokchanlina Lim, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2022; River Pulses, Border Flows, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangdong, China, 2022; Mchas Teuk Mchas Dei (Master of Lands and Waters), Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2022; IN BETWEEN, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2022; Phantasmapolis, the 8th Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2021-2022; Work-in-Progress, SEED the Art Space, Singapore, 2021; Identity XVI: My Home?, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2020; Phantoms and Aliens: The Invisible Other, Richard Koh Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2020; Foreshadows, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, Japan, 2019; Wrapped Future II, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2019; and Every Step in the Right Direction, the 6th Singapore Biennale, Gillman Barracks, Singapore, 2019.
Lim Sokchanlina also participated in residencies at Lostgens’, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2019; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan, 2019; Tentacles Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand, 2018; Tokyo Arts and Spaces, Tokyo, Japan, 2018; and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore, 2018.