Art that Challenges and Reveals the Human Condition

By Regina Hoo

June 2022 PENANG PROFILE
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The Mental Trip at the Tang Contemporary Beijing in 2017. The concept came from the Pozzo di San Patrizio, or the Well of St. Patrick.
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PENANG-BRED MULTIDISCIPLINARY artist HH Lim has a natural insouciance about him, but age and experience from years abroad have humbled his opinion on Life somewhat. Minutes into our two-hour long conversation, he offers me his first astute aphorism, “Life’s a meandering journey, never the point of arrival. It is sophisticated and intimate in its unpredictability and upheavals.”Lim had not anticipated that a holiday to Rome in his youth would leave him captivated by the burnished colours of the city or...

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Regina Hoo

is the deputy editor of Penang Monthly.

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