“Reciprocity”
By Hings Lim
16 – 31 August 2016
Lot No. 2F-3, Level 2
Bangsar Village II
Jalan Telawi 1, Bangsar Baru
59100 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA) is pleased to present Reciprocity by Hings Lim at Richard Koh Fine Art, Lot No. 2F-3, Level 2, Bangsar Village II, Jalan Telawi 1, Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 16 – 31 August 2016. The exhibition will be the emerging artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The opening reception will be held on the 16th of August (Tues), from 6 – 9 pm.
Hings Lim’s multidimensional art practice uses the framework of the participatory project in the process of making art. For Reciprocity, Hings engaged different marginal communities in Kuala Lumpur such as the newly emerged communities of foreign workers, immigrants and refugees as collaborators. He visits their “towns” and areas of interest and encouraged the individuals, whether adults or children, to take part and contribute in the art-making process. The projects are set up in the different communities’ public spaces, open streets or sheltered compounds, almost like an installation or a happening, where the participants are provided with a make-shift mark-making tool consisting of a handled bicycle wheel, acrylic paint and canvas. They are given the freedom to express, using the wheel as a brush to create paintings that deceptively appear like Abstract Expressionist works but are a result of a communal effort and created outside the heroic studio setting. The paintings complicate the authorship of artworks and the artist’s touch while engaging the non-artist to be a part of the art dialogue
Hings Lim (b. 1989, Malaysia) studied Fine Arts at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. In 2012, he was awarded the chair of P. Ramlee from Petronas Award. He is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kuala Lumpur and works in a wide range of materials. He is interested in demands the fusion of social experience between art and life while attempts to challenge the conventions of art and explore its social, cultural and political functions. He was active in running community art project and worked collectively in organizing workshops with National Visual Arts Gallery since 2013.
Richard Koh Fine Art has been in operation since 2005 and is regarded as a pioneer for introducing Asian and Southeast Asian contemporary art to Malaysia and the region. Promoting an adventurous roster of emerging and established Southeast Asian artists, the gallery regularly mounts exhibitions locally and abroad with a commitment to emerging practices and challenging media.
