Parts of Self - HOME X Cob Gallery

‘Parts of Self is the final show of the HOME x Cob Residency, a 6-week residency programme for two BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) Women-identifying Artists – hosted by HOME within the newly remodelled Cob Studios. Residents received a stipend and materials budget, thanks to Glossier for sponsoring the programme.

The exhibition is a celebration of the work made, research undertaken, and time spent in the studios, over the six week residency period. It explores identity, space and form, and how the three interact within the close walls of the studio.’

‘Hannah Lim is a sculptor whose practice explores the colonial connotations between East and West, as manifested in Orientalism and its relationship to the Chinoiserie. Recently she has been creating peculiar, somewhat furniture-like structures. These pieces combine motifs and imagery from both Chinese and European furniture design. In doing so she attempts to re-imagine and reclaim ideas and designs associated with the Chinoiserie, which have in the past had problematic colonial undertones. Cultural designs are shared as opposed to appropriated, it is no longer about one culture being moulded to the demands of another’.

‘The residency has been a great opportunity to start bridging different elements of my practice; combining smaller ceramic pieces, larger flat pack sculptures and drawings. Whilst making I’ve been considering the ornamental nature of the objects I create and how these objects have become an extension of myself. Ornaments and ornamental language have historically been used to depict East Asian and South-East Asian women, categorising, personifying and fetishising their identities. I want to explore these ideas, breaking them down and reconstructing them. – Hannah Lim’