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Won Ju Lim: California Dreamin’
June 22, 2018
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September 30, 2018
SJMA presents the US premiere of Won Ju Lim’s multimedia installation California Dreamin’ (2002), recently acquired by the museum.
Born in Gwangju, South Korea, and raised in Los Angeles, Lim created California Dreamin’ while living abroad in Germany during a period when she was intensely homesick. Lim conceptualized California Dreamin’ as an idea of “fantastic ruins”: cinematic cityscapes that unite a ruined past with an idealized future.
The artist drew inspiration from the XVI century Spanish author Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo’s fictional account of a paradisiacal California and from science fiction films such as Blade Runner and Logan’s Run.
Lim’s installation features multi-colored Plexiglas constructions of model homes and prefabricated buildings suffused with moving and still image projections.
Won Ju Lim: California Dreamin’
The exhibit playlist includes a collection of videos related to the exhibit and the artists.
Brown Bag video not available
Brown Bag Video URL
Additiomal Information
URLs:
California Dreamin' exhibit in Berlin 2002
Q&A with the artist in Sam Fox school
Won Ju Lim talks about being an artist in Los Angeles
Article on Aunt Clara's Dilemma (not in the show)
Gallery Briefing
The California Dreamin' Gallery Briefing on June 23 was rather unstructured. Two teams participated in VTS analyses of the various artworks in the show. The result resembled sequential spotlight tours. You should have been there.
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