Won Ju Lim: Crystalline Ruins

In the sense of her private archaeology she attempts to discover what effects ruins have on life today without intermediary information, when the bridge of historical memory collapses and the feeling for the gnawing of time, the decrepitude of the architectures overlays the belief in its duration. This also applied to architectures and ruins of the future, which she charges with the projection of passed time, not in order to investigate their objective age but rather their subjective ageing interpreted from the future. In her work "Longing for Wilmington" (2006) she occupies herself with objects which, lit from the back, throw shadows on the polyester objects surrounding them and, refracted several times, on the wall. Some of the lights give off saturated warm light, others cold light, which creates a nebulous mystical atmosphere. It is about colour houses and light plants which are reminiscent of Taut and his Glashaus (Glass Pavilion). With her ruins Lim wants to reveal secrets of the past in these abandoned "cities" in order to be better able to understand the present.