Sepia Pelagicus, from 2020 series (2012)
Archival inkjet print
58.4 x 58.4 cm
Edition 1 of 3
Photo credit : Wilfred Lim
The 2020 series proposes a vision of mutated marine life in the not too distant future. The series was made in response to plans for the development of an oil refinery near the artist’s Pengerang coastal hometown in Johor, Malaysia.
Wilfred Lim’s photographic practice finds its most sustained subject in the form of the artist’s Pengerang hometown in Johor, Malaysia. While it stems from the personal and is at times autobiographical, Wilfred’s body of Pengerang-centred work is also inflected with a desire to tell stories of a coastal village community in the path of plans for economic development.
Wilfred Lim
Born 1988, Malaysia. Lives and works in Singapore.
BFA 2014, School of Art Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wilfred was awarded Programme Winner for Visual Arts by the Dublin-based Undergraduate Award in 2014, and was a nominee for ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu photography award in the same year. He has actively participated in group exhibitions in Singapore since 2012, and his work has been presented in Malaysia, Korea, China, Taiwan and India.
Wilfred Lim
Red Note Part II (2015)
Suite of 10 prints
Archival inkjet print
22.5 x 15 cm each
Edition 1 of 3
Photo credit: Wilfred Lim
The sequel to the Red Note series (2013), Red Note Part II revisits Wilfred’s Pengerang hometown to record the derelict of partially demolished homes that had earlier received the government’s notice to vacate – ‘red note’. Wilfred’s interest in this latter series was to capture the structural shell of living rooms and allow the walls and abandoned objects to tell stories about their erstwhile occupants.
Nemipterus Harpiosquilla, from 2020 series (2012)
Archival inkjet print
58.4 x 58.4 cm
Edition 1 of 3
Photo credit : Wilfred Lim
