Won Ju Lim's work

Kiss 7, 2005, plexiglass sculpture, 18" x 24" x 6 1/2"

"Elysian Field," plexiglas, foam core board, DVD and
still image projections and lamps, variable dimensions, 2001.

Artist Biography:
An MFA graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Won Ju Lim currently lives and works in Los Angeles as a sculptor and installation artist. Lim’s work focuses on the tensions between perception, space, and subjectivity in the post-modern age. In order to reflect on and represent the shifting relationship between these three elements, she usually takes architectural reconstructions whose "realism"she questions, critically and poetically, through the judicious use of light, slide projection and video installation.

"I approach my work with specific formal concerns. I think about materials that create activities when they interact with light. The materials I am attracted to absorb, reflect and transmit direct light, light filtered by film, and video projection. Through these activities, I am interested in producing excess, and thus eventually, creating a fantastical space. Another important formal component of my work is repetition. I often take models of a banal space and repeat them, sometimes hundreds of times, to erase the point of origin. Again through excess, the relationship between the “thing” and mimicry of the “thing” becomes complex."