Memory Palace, Terrace 49 #8
Won Ju Lim
American, born Korea, 1968

Details
Title
Memory Palace, Terrace 49 #8
Artist/Maker
Won Ju Lim (American, born Korea, 1968)
Date
2003
Medium
Anodized aluminum box, frosted Mylar, incandescent lights, LED lights, and mixed media sculpture
Dimensions
30 x 84 x 20 inches
Credit
Gift of the artist and Haines Gallery
Accession #
2019.106
Won Ju Lim’s series of “Memory palaces” evoke the sparkle and glow of residential hillsides in Los Angeles in their combination of natural and architectural forms. The shadowy interiors of her lightboxes evoke associations with tales of romance and mystery. Lim titled the works after a mnemonic technique with roots in ancient Tibet wherein an imaginary location is constructed in the mind using images that trigger one’s recall. As in a dream, the haunting quality of Lim’s imaginary landscapes is ambiguous. Do they depict Hollywood fantasies of images of catastrophe and ruin?
Image Copyright
© (c) Won Ju Lim
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