AIR 2019

Lim Sokchanlina

Residency Duration: April 2019

Lim Sokchanlina (b. 1987, Prey Veng, Cambodia) works across documentary and conceptual practices with photography, video, side specific installation and performance. Using different strategies, he calls attention to a variety of social, political, geopolitics, cultural, economic and environmental changes in Cambodia in relation to the globe. He graduated from Norton University in Phnom Penh with a BA in Economics before enrolling in vocational training to learn photography. His recent solo and group exhibitions include: 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), Bangkok Art Biennale (2018) and “SUNSHOWER: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia 1980s to Now” (Japan, 2017).

Lim is a founding and active member of the artist collective Stiev Selapak / Art Rebels (2007- ), who co-founded Sa Sa Art Projects, a community-based, knowledge-sharing platform and experimental residency program.

During the residency, he gave an artist talk on 09 April where he shared his research on Cambodian migrant workers in Asia. He also talked about his art collective ‘Sa Sa Art Project’, the art scene in Cambodia, and presented some of his previous works.

Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2019
Supported by Japan Foundation Asia Center, Grant & Fellowship Programs

photo credits to Lee Jye Yee

Sarah Schoderer

Residency Duration: June – August 2019

Sarah Schoderer studied Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main until 2011. Since then she has been working as a freelancer, implementing art projects in various countries i.e. Kenya, Belgium, Croatia, Tunisia and of course Germany. She mainly works in painting but also makes sculptures for film and out of paintings. She sees herself as a conceptual working artist with a strong focus on visual forms that reflects different aspects of contemporary society. In her previous works, she criticized the consumerism culture in the western society.

She gave an artist talk on the 21 July where she shared her experience as an artist working in the African continent. She also presented her previous works and talked about her art practice. At the end of the residency, she held an installation exhibition entitled Mendekati Visual – Daily Little Prayers which consisted of drawings and photos she documented specific moments and experiences during her stay which highlighted some conflicts that modern societies will always have, for example, the destruction of nature giving way to rapid urbanization. The exhibition was opened to the public from 17 August – 01 September 2019.

Kuala Lumpur Lostgens’ X Frankfurt Basis and Goethe Institut AIR Collaboration Project