Singapore

Jason LIM（1966）

2007, 90×90×150 cmach）

Porcelain, mold pressing and hand building, oxidation fired to 1200℃, gas kiln

Jason LIM（b. 1966，Singapore）

Just Dharma, a chandelier form composed of glowing porcelain Lotus flowers - that emblem of Asian Buddhist cultures - signifies an “architectural cluster of prayers”, recalling Buddhist Loy Krathong rituals where lighted lotuses are floated as prayers in the river. His reference to dharma as a philosophy of the Natural Law or Order of Things or a higher truth is further underscored by his planned act that alludes to iconoclasm (b. the act of smashing of images in certain religions). The work offers me the opportunity to address how “hope” is a construct and fiction that conventionally counteracts despair and promises freedom and empowerment but paradoxically captures and enslaves because of the frailties of human nature. Not rooted in reason nor intuition, it is hope that sustains and ruins – as evident in the fierce mental and emotional strivings of a parent of a long-missing child; the punter who places yet another bet; the foreign-worker anticipating a better life; the soldier conscripted to fight in an ‘international coalition against terror’ against an enemy he scarcely understands.

2007 Selected group exhibition, 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Casteli Franchetti Venice, Italy. Supported by National Arts Council

2007 Juror’s Award, 4th World Ceramics Biennale, Korea

2006 Artist-in-Residency, Freeman Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, USA

2005 Solo exhibition titled “Fruits of Labor”, La Libreria and Studio Miu, Singapore. Supported by National Arts Council.

2003 M.F.A, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia.

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