nca | nichido contemporary art

Vol.1 Sokchanlina Lim
10.28 (fri.) - 11.9 (wed.)

Venue: nca | nichido contemporary art
Gallery hours: Tue. – Sat. 11:00~19:00 (Closed on Sun., Mon., and National Holiday)
*Open during “Art Week Tokyo” (hours are as above)
Vol.1 Sokchanlina Lim / 10.28 - 11.9
Vol.2 Ting-Tong Chang / 11.11 – 11.22
Vol.3~Vol.4 / Coming soon

nca | nichido contemporary art is pleased to present “Storytellers -Through the lens of contemporaneity” a group show that presents a selection of video works by four internationally acclaimed artists from Asia.
Over the past years we have been witnessing increasing interest in video art with an ever-growing presence of video works at major, international art events, such as Documenta, the Biennale and so forth.
Video art is a highly diverse genre that keeps our senses constantly engaged through video installations, for instance, whether they may be representing a performance or an object.
The exhibition puts together four artists whose artistic practice strongly focuses on video art, each through their unique expressive language, and investigates the different issues that are affecting their countries nowadays while travelling through history. The exhibition time will be arranged in four “volumes” corresponding to the number of the participating artists and their work will be presented accordingly in the form of a solo show.
Vol.1 presents Sokchanlina Lim’s work Letter to the Sea which will be on view during the whole duration of AWT 2022.

Vol.1 Sokchanlina Lim
Lim (b. 1987, Prey Veng, Cambodia; lives and works in Phnom Penh) uses his work to represent the shift today’s Cambodia is undergoing in terms of culture, environment, economy and politics, while focusing on the issues this entails.
In Letter to the Sea, a fully submerged Lim reads a letter addressed to the many, deceased Cambodian fishermen who were forced into illegal work in Thailand’s waters.
The work is part of Lim’s ongoing project Cambodian Migrant Workers in Asia - A Conversation where the artist investigates the situation of Cambodian workers respectively in Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Hong Kong and China, and was first presented on occasion of Singapore Biennale 2019. In addition, the work was featured in Documenta 15 which ran until September 25.