Eugenia Lim
Letter to Corhanwarrabul, 2023
HD video, colour, sound
duration 00:02:43
Credits
Artist/editor: Eugenia Lim
Archival photographs from Lim family collection
Video samples: Black Box Guild and Ferraro Films / Pond5
Sound samples: SoundFXellence / Pond 5
A Burrinj a Cultural Centre Project
Original concept and curation: Gareth Hart
© Eugenia Lim, 2023
Drawing from the artist’s family photo albums that document regular visits to Mount Dandenong, Letter to Corhanwarrabul considers flows and cycles of time, migration, displacement, becoming, and entanglements with past and future bodies.
Conscious of living on unceded Wurundjeri lands within the Kulin Nation, Eugenia Lim created this work both on and in dialogue with Wurundjeri woiwurrung Country. As migrant settler and uninvited guest, Eugenia pays deep respect to the traditional custodians of this land, and their long, ongoing practice of culture, storytelling, science and care for Country.
Eugenia Lim is an artist, researcher and filmmaker of Chinese–Singaporean ancestry whose work with moving image, performance, sculpture, installation and social practice is informed by histories—and counter-narratives—of migration, capital, labour, materiality, ecology and the politics of space. Working between documentary, speculative, and poetic modes, Lim’s image-making and installations explore the how the diasporic condition can engender ways of seeing in resistance to the colonial gaze. Stemming from an emplaced, relational and collaborative approach—from gig economy workers to sewage treatment plants—Lim’s art-making platforms places and communities that are otherwise unseen or undervalued in dominant culture.
Based in Naarm on unceded Wurundjeri lands, Lim has shown at the Tate Modern (GBR), LOOP Barcelona (ESP), Jinan Biennial (CN), Recontemporary (IT), Kassel Dokfest (DE), Museum of Contemporary Art (AU), ACCA (AU), FACT Liverpool (GBR), Substation (SG), AGNSW (AU), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK) and EXiS (KR). Lim is a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship alumni and winner of Kunsthal Charlottenborg Spring’s 2022 Deep Forest Art Land Award. In 2024, Lim was one of 10 international directors selected for the prestigious Berlinale Talents Short Form Station.