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LIM Sokchanlina

b. 1987, Prey Veng

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Lim Sokchanlina works across documentary and conceptual practices with photography, video, installation and performance. Using different strategies, he calls attention to a variety of social, political, cultural, economic and environmental changes in Cambodia in relation to the globe.

Lim is a founding and active member of the artist collective Stiev Selapak / Art Rebels (2007 – ), who co-founded the exhibitions 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 - ). He recently helped establish Analogue Prints Laboratory, the first public-access darkroom in Phnom Penh.

Lim's recent exhibitions include National Road Number 5, Art Stage Singpore, Singapore and Urban Aspiration, The Physics Room Contemporary Art Space, Auckland, NZ (2016); Weaving the Asian Democracy, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju; The Second China-ASEAN Biennale, China and Renaissance 2015, Lille3000, France (2015; Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh, H Gallery Bangkok and SA SA BASSAC, Phnom Penh; Darwin Festival, Australia; Phnom Penh Rescue Archaeology: The Body, The Lens, The City, The Disappearance, Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2014), Urban Street Night Club, Art Stage Singapore, SE Asia Platform; Wrapped Future (Triangle Park), Brooklyn (2013), and SA SA BASSAC (2012), Phnom Penh: Rescue Archaeology, ifa, Berlin and Stuttgart (2013), and Riverscapes INFLUX, various spaces: Hanoi, Saigon, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Jakarta, Manila (2012). He was a resident with Jose Arts Lab, Johannesburg, South Africa and Rates of Exchange, Un-Compared: Contemporary Art in Bangkok and Phnom Penh at toot Yung Art Center, Bangkok / Studio of Kamin Lertchaiprasert and Studio Sudsiri Pui-Ock, Chiang Mai (2014). He was a resident with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at Governor's Island (2013).