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4/10/2006

Won Ju Lim

The Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu

Won Ju Lim: In Many Things to Come, will be presented in the Clare Boothe Luce Gallery at the Honolulu Academy of Arts October 5 through November 26, 2006. This presentation is the third in a series of exhibition of works by internationally known contemporary artists, which was initiated by the Academy in 2005.

Born in Gwangju, South Korea in 1968, Won Ju Lim was educated at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Lim has exhibited in solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Berlin, and Madrid, and has been featured in group shows including ARCO 06, Madrid; the 2002 Gwangju Bienniale; and the 2001 Munster Sculpture Biennial. Presently, Lim is included in exhibitions in Germany at the Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe and the Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen. A resident of Los Angeles, Lim also teaches on the UCLA faculty.

Lim is known for creating evocative architectural forms that are illuminated by projected moving and still images. Her installations use cinematic spectacle and wonder to create animated monuments and haunting landscapes that lead viewers through a journey of colors, shadows and light to ponder themes like fantasy, longing, nostalgia and remembrance. For this commissioned work, Lim has chosen to focus on Hawaii

In Many Things to Come begins with the premise that a visitor’s experience of Hawaii is, in part, a packaged commodity manufactured by a powerful tourism-industrial complex. The recognition of this aspect of Hawaii raises questions about the process of conveying, representing and remembering the “essence" of Hawaii. This is particularly meaningful when such questioning explores what is excluded or distorted in representing a “pristine" or “authentic" experience - a type of experience that always proves to be elusive. In Many Things to Come explores this nexus through the recognition that the touristic packaging of Hawaii is meant to elicit nostalgia, recollection and ultimately, a return visit to a place that will eventually be acknowledged by the visitor as part dreamy fabrication. Through its use of iconic images, sculptural forms and cinematic projections from Hawaii, In Many Things to Come provocatively presents the affects, effects and residue of a form of recollection made complex by touristic inventions and interventions.

Lim will give a free lecture about her work on October 8, 2006 at 4 p.m. in The Doris Duke Theatre. Won Ju Lim: Spectral Forms 1996-2006 will focus on the last ten years of her work and discuss excerpts from the writings of Italo Calvino, Marcel Proust, and Susan Stewart as they relate to her haunting sculptural installations. Seating is limited and offered on a first-come, first served basis.

In Many Things to Come is the third in the Academy’s annual series of international contemporary art presentations that began in 2005 with Neo Rauch Works 1994-2002: The Leipziger Volkszeitung Collection (February 10 - April 17, 2005), the artist’s only United States museum exhibition. The series continued with Bjorn Melhus: Eastern_Western_Park (December 21, 2005 - January 22, 2006).

In Many Things To Come is supported by a grant from the American Center Foundation

Artist Lecture Won Ju Lim: Spectral Forms 1996-2006 October 8, 2006 at 4 p.m. The Doris Duke Theatre

Opening: 5 October 2006

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