Kenji Lim

MA work

What we Excrete Returns to Consume us, 2019
Video
Archaea Arcadia Ark part 1, 2019
Acrylic on unstretched linen canvas
185cm x 220cm
In Gorse, 2019
Video with sound
Fen Meadow Forfiet, 2019
Video with sound

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Land holds stories like a sponge holds water. Or vinegar for that matter. Stories, narratives and myths permeate the landscape and bubble up in certain places where the membrane between truth and fiction is the thinnest. These are places with a Sense of Place, where identities are bared and where we are tied to the soil. Or are they? Is Place a construction of the mind longing for belonging? Do we convince ourselves of the importance of a location and the stories tied to it out of a desire to mythologise ourselves and our attachment to the stories of those long gone?

Experience
Mustarinda residency, Finland, 2016; Merz Barn residency, Chapel Stile, Cumbria, 2018; Dirty Hands and Revelations residency, Standpoint Gallery, London, 2019

Exhibitions
Becks Futures Student Prize 2002, ICA, London; Royal West of England Academy 164 Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, 2016; Wells Art Contemporary 2016, The Bishops Palace, Wells, 2016; Hanes: tales, stories, legends & myths, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, 2017; #34 Annual Open Exhibition, CGP, London, 2018; 'Art Language Location', Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, 2015; 'TimeFrame', 94 Walcot Street, Bath, 2016; 'Art + Text', 44AD, Bath, 2017; 'The Words Come From the Land', Porth Melgan, St. Davids, 2017; 'Beasts of the Mabinogion', Oriel CRiC, Crickhowell, 2017; 'Embodied Cartographies', Walcot Chapel, Bath, 2017; 'The Forest at the End of the World', Blue Ginger Gallery, Herefordshire, 2017; Work-in-progress Show, RCA Sculpture, London, 2017; 'Supercult I & II', Hockney Gallery, London, 2018; 'Merzibition', Courtyard Gallery, London, 2019; 'Dirty Hands and Revelations', Standpoint Gallery, London, 2019

Awards
Placed 3rd, Beck's Futures Student Prize, 2002; Art Language Location Award, 2015