Andrew Lim creates site responsive sculptural installations. Lim likes to devise constraints; a specific site will function as both the source of materials and the boundaries of installation. Using a set of rules devised for each installation out of which the artwork grows to its logical conclusion.
Lim likes fitting things together. He is interested in how the accumulation of objects go on to create a form that is more than the sum of its parts, at a certain point in the process they become an object in itself.
Lim’s work is produced by the space it fills – the artwork becomes concerned with place, history and architecture. When the materials could be anything in the world; these constraints bring some order to an inconceivably large choice. The materials are everyday objects; shelves, scaffolding, ladders, tables, they are objects of function that are often overlooked. Function is made aesthetic. The work is ephemeral in nature, often the resulting artworks are an intervention in the object’s working life, and after the artwork has been dismantled the objects can go back to their original function.
Lim’s work is experimental and playful the outcome is unknown till construction, when the limitations of the location and the nature of the materials join. Paradoxically the experimentation and playfulness is in the devising of the rules.
