Joanne Lim

Mirrorball: Reflections on Portraiture Artist Focus: Joanne Lim Two Copies for the Record involves Lim transforming participants’ personal data into printed reports that are compiled and bound into books. The work does not rely on any expertise in hacking or surveillance. Instead, the artist positions herself as a cyber layperson, emphasising that the information compiled in each book is largely open-source and gathered through time, patience, and labour from participants’ social media activity, browser histories, and reverse image search engines. This work hence materialises the sheer volume of personal data that is readily accessible by anyone, from anywhere; data that many individuals callously relinquish through routine and unguarded interaction with digital platforms. Though the volume of data compiled may initially seem overwhelming, Lim’s Tools of Resistance, an accompanying work, attempts to give participants a means to exercise a resistance against the legibility of their personal information. Using everyday materials, participants are able to redact, alter and withhold the contents of their personal books. In a digital environment where deletion is rarely possible, these tools propose distortion, deflection, and disruption as acts that offer participants alternate ways to assert agency and control over how they are seen even under constant surveillance. @elynnjo View this body of work in our current exhibition, Mirrorball: Reflections on Portraiture, running until 14 March 2026. Image 1 Tools of Resistance: FRICTION IS POWER 2025 Acrylic, screws, decals, tape and wooden pencils Edition of 10 + 1 Artist’s Proof H21.2 x W30.3 x D3.7 cm Image 2 Two Copies for the Record 2025 – ongoing White faux leather cover, 70 gsm paper H29.7 x W21 x DVariable cm (each; installation) Image 3 Tools of Resistance series 2025 Installation view Image 1, 2 and 3 by Lavender Chang @lavchang Image 4 by Ken Cheong, Courtesy of LASALLE-UAS #joannelim #mirrorballreflectionsonportraiture #contemporaryart #singapore #fostgallery

Dear friends ✨ We’re very happy to announce our first Open Studio on 𝟯𝟬 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗙𝗿𝗶) right at the end of SAW! If you’re looking for a place to rest, chill, and recharge with art, drinks, and snacks, come hang out with us. We’ll be sharing our latest works and practices, from digital, readymade and installations to ceramics and illustrations. We’re also hosting a small 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐲 (𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬!) 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤-𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 from 𝟭–𝟴𝗽𝗺, you can drop by anytime! More details & registration here: https://www.artweek.sg/event-detail/craft-and-crackers Looking forward to seeing you there 💛

So grateful to be showing with @fostgallery at ART SG 2026 🤗 A huge thank you to Fost Gallery, @stephfong33 , @hongerootooties and @rrsha for the care, guidance and support, throughout this process. And heartfelt thanks to Nasmie and the @arts_in_mind team for framing the work so beautifully。 Really glad to be sharing the booth alongside: @johnclang , @hanson_ho , Jason Lim, @kwodrent , @wynlyntan , @savanhdary_vongpoothorn_ , @ianwoo67 。 Hope to see you there!! FOST Gallery Booth BB12 Level B2 ART SG 2026 @ Sands Expo & Convention Centre 22–25 January 2026

I’m really grateful to be showing in Temporary Obsessions, together with lecturers, alumni and current students from LASALLE College of the Arts. Thank you @lasallesingapore for having me. And a heartfelt thank you to the curatorial team @jeremysharma1 , @_lim_hazel_ , @urichlau and @woontienwei for supporting us with such kindness and care. Thank you @afsingapour for hosting and for making room for this show 🤍 Alliance Française Gallery Alliance Française de Singapour, 1 Sarkies Road, Singapore 258130 17–28 January 2026

5 artsy DIY workshops to sign up for this month 1️⃣ Neural Echoes: Enter the Sleep Lab 📅 9 Jan-7 Feb 💵 $32 2️⃣ Coffee Meets Murals 📅 24-25 Jan 💵 $20 3️⃣ Craft x Design Workshop 📅 24 Jan 💵 Booking link not ready 4️⃣ Art On The Hill 26 📅 16-31 Jan 💵 From $0 5️⃣ Craft and Crackers 📅 30 💵 $10 👀 Follow @districtsixtyfive for the best things to do in Singapore #thingstodoinsingapore #freethingstodoinsingapore #diyworkshops #craftworkshops #sgartweek Photos: 1. National Arts Council 2. Tusitala X Artwave Studio 3. SG Art Week 4. HeritageSG 5. Art On The Hill 26 6. Sherlyn Tang 7. IKUIKU Studio

Happy to share and grateful to be a part of Glimmer: States of Being. Glimmer: States of Being brings together the works of 14 artists who contemplate perception, essence, memory and belonging. A glimmer suggests a fleeting shift and gentle presence in one’s field of vision, neither fully formed nor entirely lost. It is revealed through luminous reflections, a glimpse of hope or a moment of clarity and confrontation with the conditions of our existence. Rather than reinforcing rigid tropes and stereotypes, these works invite lingering, sensing and dwelling within the uncertainties of becoming. The exhibition thus stages the self and the world not as a complete form, but as a network of evolving possibilities continually taking shape. A big thank you to @deborah.lim for your curatorial direction and care, and to Johan and @masuri_mazlan for your support. Thank you also to @glass___cube and Museum Art & Co for having us. Museum Art & Co, Millenia Walk 17 Jan – 20 Feb 2026 Curated by Deborah Lim Project Management: Masuri Mazlan Adviser: Johan Organised by @glass___cube

Grateful to be part of Mirrorball: Reflections on Portraiture at @fostgallery , opening on the 17th of January in conjunction with Singapore Art Week. I’ll be showing works from The Public Exposure Archive — thinking about portraiture not through faces, but through data, consent, and what we quietly reveal about ourselves every day. Thank you to FOST Gallery, @stephfong33 , @guangerootooties and @rrsha for all the support and guidance leading up to the exhibition. And to @lulu_enpassant and @ianwoo67 who were with me every step of the way while developing this project during my Master’s programme at LASALLE. Lastly, thank you to the participants who took the time to be part of this project. This work would not be possible without your trust and support. Artist walkthrough: 17 Jan, 4–5pm Hope to see you there. ✨

Join us for the opening of Inside the Dream of A Durian Seller on Thursday, 20 November 2025, 4-8pm. Hosted at the Vitrine Gallery by @yeoworkshop , the exhibition is held at OUE Downtown Gallery pop-up space. 6A Shenton Way, unit 01-36, Singapore 068815 20 Nov 2025 - 31 Jan 2026 (Singapore Art Week) Thank you @yeoworkshop for including me in this presentation and @studiochunubi for putting it altogether. Hope to see you there! — Inside the Dream of A Durian Seller Featuring works by Chun U Bi, Brandon Tay, Jimmy Ong, Tisya Wong and Teng Jee Hum, the group exhibition takes inspiration from Singapore Pioneer artist Cheong Soo Pieng’s 1981 painting of a durian seller. This historic image - ordinary yet surreal - sets the stage for a contemporary reimagining of all the elements in this painting, where the durian becomes motif and metaphor. Artists transform the everyday shop front on a main thoroughfare into an immersive space of imagination, heritage, and community, echoing Cheong’s ability to elevate ordinary scenes into metaphors for wide social and artistic conditions. Vitrine presented by Yeo Workshop is a new pop-up space to spotlight local artists, extending beyond traditional workshop gallery spaces at Gillman Barracks to bring art to the CBD. —

PGX 4–12 Nov 2025 Project Space, LASALLE College of the Arts

PGX 2025 4th to 12th November 2025. 6th November 6pm MAFA 2025

Grateful for the opportunity to be part of the 26th Edition of the Winston Oh Travelogue, held at LASALLE College of the Arts. Thank you Dr. Oh, @shubigi , @lulu_enpassant , @ak_4art2 , @lasallesingapore , @mcnallymafinearts and the ICAS team for making magic happen. The overseas trip and exhibition would not have been possible without your guidance, consultation, and assistance from start to finish. Special thanks to @designarchive and @lostgens.artspace for opening your doors and allowing research and practice to take place in KL. I’m also thankful to many Malaysians I met during my time there, who made the entire research trip so fruitful. — Tiger Stripes (2025) Tiger Stripes reflects on how authority and dissent inhabit the same fragile surfaces. Discovered during a research trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian postmarked stamps reveal how power inscribes itself in the smallest details of daily life, while graffiti, stickers and posters offers unruly marks of presence and persistence in public space. Brought together, they form a restless dialogue of control and resistance, order and insistence. Large poster-prints, made from handheld scans of graffiti walls and other surfaces, are layered with “Don’t Spread Rumors” in four major languages of Malaysia. Intentionally distressed and hand-marked, the posters carry the grit and rhythm of the streets, translating their energy into the gallery space. The resulting composition recalls tiger-like stripes—signs of persistence where expression and authority remain in constant negotiation. — Winston Oh Travelogue Having Seen the Moon Shine On The Other Side Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore October 2025

What a pleasure it was to be part of “Tasting Justice: Off the menu” event yesterday with the Critical Craft Collective’s participatory art initiative in the form of a singalong entitled “Rasa Sayang (For the love of food)”. Celebrating food as a love language and the collective experience of singing and listening to a beloved folk song, we honoured the song (with the use of pantun) and its enduring legacy, and reflected on their lasting cultural resonances within Singapore and across the Nusantara archipelago. Through a process of public pedagogy and participation, the workshop encouraged participants to experience how songs and their lyrics have long been part of a wider oral and vernacular tradition. It was fun learning the sonic, textual and multilingual narratives in the song as acts of care and kinship – fostering connections and openness to differences through sound and music. Never had I ever thought I would need to lead prep/sing to our brilliant collaborators, Irsyad Dawood, JJ Keat & Rebecca Dass across different time zones & space but it was well-worth my time to care and focus on this song that is in Malay (the official language of Singapore) and is recognised by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of Malaysia and Indonesia (and imho by extension, Singapore). It was also particularly useful to have the thoughtful conversations with you, Francis Maravillas, for the workshop to happen. I am also glad that my sarong installation (inspired by my father’s resourcefulness) once again was able to hold space for our guest speakers and participants. From the performance-lectures of Nathalie’s breadfruit to Keg’s banana, and our cempedak-pisang emas-nasi lemak related pantun, “Off the menu” brought many of us together to examine our relationship with different kinds of food. Thank you, everyone - rasa sayang eh, indeed! … Tasting Justice: the politics of food in art is curated by Francis Maravillas, Madeleine Collie, Marnie Badham and Stephen Loo (Tastes of Justice Curatorial Collective) and included talks, activations and performances by Nathalie Muchamad, Keg de Souza, and Critical Craft Collective, as well as a workshop by Elia Nurvista.