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Lim Siang Jin

Lim Siang Jin

Self-portrait in Fragments: Kent at Canterbury, 1973-76

Self-portrait in Fragments: Kent at Canterbury, 1973-76

SOME 50 YEARS after I left formal studies in sociology and anthropology, I am finding the lectures and readings of those days useful in guiding my art. For example, I derived ideas on self-portraits in fragments from Zygmunt Bauman. Now I am exploring Claude Levi-Strauss’s discourse on totemism, part

When theSun had The Edge

When theSun had The Edge

There was a time from 2002-08 when the nation was at the cusp of consolidating a new media group. theSun and The Edge were at the centre of this movement. But it was not to be. This is an insider story of how theSun developed, and later with The Edge

2024: Four shows on art and story telling

2024: Four shows on art and story telling

LAST YEAR was a defining year for Jin’s Art Gallery. My intention was to brand it as a place where art and story-telling meet; the four shows that were held there exemplified its purpose. I also planned each show as I would a publication. The following are some details

Underclass

Underclass

TIRED BY the huge mess my old works had become, I sat down over a few weeks in 2016 with my former colleague, Jason Tan, to sort them out. First, along a few themes and then, to write something cohesive about them. Eventually, they took the form of four PDFs.

Off Stone 4: Sheila Singam, Opalyn Mok, Marina Emmanuel, Jahabar Sadiq & Lim Siang Jin

Off Stone 4: Sheila Singam, Opalyn Mok, Marina Emmanuel, Jahabar Sadiq & Lim Siang Jin

SHELIA SINGAM AT THE EDGE, Sheila was part of the Options team under Surinder Jessy. They shared the same floor as me and BK Tan so we saw each other often. At the time, I did not know how multi-talented she was. Since then, mainly via her Facebook posts, I

Off Stone 3: Lim Yin Foong, Jenny Ng, Sreerema Banoo & Khoo Hsu Chuang

Off Stone 3: Lim Yin Foong, Jenny Ng, Sreerema Banoo & Khoo Hsu Chuang

LIM YIN FOONG YIN FOONG joined The Edge shortly after we launched in 1994. I met her there and have been following her work post-Edge too – her evolution from journalism to creative non-fiction. What she portrayed at Off Stone is a small but important and meaningful part of an interesting

Off Stone 2: Kee Thuan Chye, Lam Seng Fatt, Choong Tet Sieu, Angeline Lim & Susan Chan

Off Stone 2: Kee Thuan Chye, Lam Seng Fatt, Choong Tet Sieu, Angeline Lim & Susan Chan

KEE THUAN CHYE THUAN CHYE and I have been friends since 1966 when we met in Form 1 at Penang Free School. He was kind enough to contribute two items for the exhibition: a display of his books and a presentation, ‘A Word with You: Readings and a Chat with