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| Sabina Lee Gallery
is pleased to present "Scape-Dichotomy" by
New York based artist ChoongSup Lim. His process deals with a desire to illuminate upon and bridge the division between nature and culture. He is interested in the possibilities of creating a conjunction between the raw and the processed while attempting to explore the relationship between his experiences of the urban and the natural environment. His work occupies a space uncovered through his constant journeying from one world to another, wherein he is observing himself moving between nature and culture. There is a kind of a dialogue he finds when such two seemingly different worlds are bridged. He articulates this dialogue in minimalistic forms, rendered through a variety of mixed media that incorporate both the found "organic" and the man-made object. In his "Fossil- Scape" series, he has constructed what he considers to be time capsules that bear traces of memory, similar to pages of a kind of visual diary. Each capsule, so to speak, can appear to constitute autonomous fossilized perceptions of nature and culture. In their totality, these numerous capsules can be assembled to encompass a larger "Fossil- Scape"- work that captures a sense-memory of space and time that are personal reflections of his journey between nature and culture. Some of his work is in the permanent collections of museums and public spaces such
as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,
Hirshhom Museum and The Smithsonian
Institution in Washington D.C. |