Solo exhibition at Galerie Reinthaler, Vienna.
12th September - 24th October 2026
Twilight: The half-light between dawn and dusk. When the day is ending but it is not yet dark, or when the night is ending but it is not yet light. Defined by change, it is a bridge between two states that share the same space but can only exist at different times. Twilight is the mixing point that becomes a third state, when the world is dim and indistinct, with fuzzy borders. The denizens of this space become active in this almost lit world of dawn and dusk. They are neither nocturnal nor diurnal. They have a name: crepuscular.
Opportunists creep from their dens for the fleeting time when one order is bleary-eyed before waking, and the other is exhausted and ready for sleep. When those specialists of the day and the night either cannot see, or are still blinded by the light. We are living in a crepuscular time. From ecological collapse fuelled by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases raising global temperatures, to the blind technological advance of AI that leads humanity towards an unknown future, we are witnessing the ending of one epoch, and we do not know what the next will bring.
Wide Eyed Half Light situates Lim’s work in a crepuscular frame, speculatively imagining creatures emerging into this world, caught in the act of transformation or transition, and reflective of a world undergoing change. They exist between forms known, suspected, and eerily familiar, with bodies both animal and vegetable, with fingers and fruits. The light is either rising or fading but we aren’t quite sure which is which, and we can only tell if we stay long enough. Similarly, in moments of metamorphosis and transformation, at a fixed point in time we cannot see what something was, or what it will develop into, only what it is now. The future is an unknown, but who will be here to see what it looks like?
12th September - 24th October 2026
Twilight: The half-light between dawn and dusk. When the day is ending but it is not yet dark, or when the night is ending but it is not yet light. Defined by change, it is a bridge between two states that share the same space but can only exist at different times. Twilight is the mixing point that becomes a third state, when the world is dim and indistinct, with fuzzy borders. The denizens of this space become active in this almost lit world of dawn and dusk. They are neither nocturnal nor diurnal. They have a name: crepuscular.
Opportunists creep from their dens for the fleeting time when one order is bleary-eyed before waking, and the other is exhausted and ready for sleep. When those specialists of the day and the night either cannot see, or are still blinded by the light. We are living in a crepuscular time. From ecological collapse fuelled by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases raising global temperatures, to the blind technological advance of AI that leads humanity towards an unknown future, we are witnessing the ending of one epoch, and we do not know what the next will bring.
Wide Eyed Half Light situates Lim’s work in a crepuscular frame, speculatively imagining creatures emerging into this world, caught in the act of transformation or transition, and reflective of a world undergoing change. They exist between forms known, suspected, and eerily familiar, with bodies both animal and vegetable, with fingers and fruits. The light is either rising or fading but we aren’t quite sure which is which, and we can only tell if we stay long enough. Similarly, in moments of metamorphosis and transformation, at a fixed point in time we cannot see what something was, or what it will develop into, only what it is now. The future is an unknown, but who will be here to see what it looks like?
