Sim Hoi Ling

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Sim Hoi Ling is an image-maker whose praxis is influenced by photography, with her subject often revolves around places of decayed. She enjoys exploring unconventional ways of marks-making and has exhibited works in the form of printmaking, media/video art, installation and performance. Her work was presented at festivals across Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, also collected internationally by collectors from the United States, Canada, Germany and Malaysia.

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She has exhibited in Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival (KLEX): ZERO ONE (2019), with the video work about the merging of realities in the advent of the internet and digital culture; Melaka Arts & Performance Festival, The Baboon House Malacca (2019), with her interactive voice installation regarding an existence grappling in between life and death; Animistic Apparatus Artistic Research Lab, Udon Thani, Thailand (2019), a self recursive installation device utilising insects and motion sensors, accompanying the video work "VR" by Manasak Khlongchainan; UNESCO Day Celebration: Youth for Change (2018), an interactive installation with the woes of endangered animals in pierced bamboos.

Dasein Academy of Art (2013-2017)

------2022------
World Records
Participating as media artist
World Records website, Online

Prajñā Revisited
Participating as media artist
Online Screening

Sea Shorts Film Festival
Participating as video artist
Multimedia University
Cyberjaya, MY

Melaka Arts & Performance Festival 2022 : Traces of Transformation
Participating as print artist & performer
The Baboon House & Bangunan Warehouse
Malacca, MY

ExScreen021: Vignettes of Moments
Participating as video artist
Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival in conjunction with Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Online Screening

Artist's Books Exhibition 藝術家的書 • 展覽
Participating as print artist
Lostgens’ Contemporary Art Space / Iron River Studio,
Kuala Lumpur, MY

VIRTUE(AL) 3.0
Participating as print artist
ARTO Movement
Artsteps Digital Exhibition Space


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f:eldnotes : transp/re, A Virtual Reality Exhibition
Hubs Digital Space
Kuala Lumpur, MY

ILHAM x SAM: Malaysian Experimental Shorts
Ilham Gallery
Kuala Lumpur, MY

Illuminating Unconventional Spaces Showcase -Installation and Performance,
KongsiKL
Kuala Lumpur, MY


------2019------
Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival (KLEX): ZERO ONE,
The Saxophone Store L2
Kuala Lumpur, MY

Melaka Arts & Performan...