Installation view of Minouk Lim (left to right), “L’homme à la camera” (2015), “It’s a Name I Gave Myself” (2018), “Parabolic Satellite” (2015), “Hydra” (2015) (photo by Bruce M. White)
Minouk Lim’s “It’s A Name I Give Myself” (2018) probes the scars of war via a compilation of video excerpts featuring individuals separated from their families by the Korean War, narrated by a fast-clipped voice-over. The fragmentation of their recollection is synecdoche for the sundering of a nation: one individual tries to identify themself to a lost family by a birthmark under the chin, another by an early memory of a sister’s limp.
—Lisa Yin Zhang
January 13, 2021
