Lim Soo Min — DOWNSIZING 2026

Lim Soo Min

Lim Soo Min (b. 1996) is a multidisciplinary artist working across visual art, textiles, installation, and performance. Her practice explores movement, materiality, bodily presence, and feminist narratives through freestyle dance, immersive and participatory installations, and weaving. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, with prior training in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics from Singapore Polytechnic.

Her work has been exhibited at NAFA Open House 2025, Flagship Genius Featuring Văn Miếu – Quốc Tử Giám II, and at the POPMART Toy Fair, where she exhibited a tapestry costume created using weaving techniques. She has been involved in a KRUMP theatre residency, further developing her performance-based practice within a theatrical context. She was awarded Gold at the Crowbar Awards 2018 (Film & Photography: Animation) and nominated for Best Art Direction at the National Youth Film Awards 2018. Alongside her artistic practice, she is active in Singapore’s dance community and has experience as an art educator.

My work explores the intersection of spirituality, mental health, and feminist identity through performance and visual art. I use freestyle dance and the body as primary sites for expression, resistance, and transformation. Living with schizophrenia shapes my practice, as performance becomes a way to navigate, articulate, and reclaim mental health narratives.

I work across performance, video, immersive installation, and textile-based weaving to create multi-sensory environments that reflect layered emotional landscapes shaped by gender, identity, and inner experience. Textiles ground my process and serve as metaphors for memory, care, and interconnection. Influenced by Saori weaving philosophy, I embrace imperfection, intuition, and personal storytelling.

I also facilitate workshops combining movement, storytelling, and Saori-inspired weaving, encouraging shared creation and empathy. For me, art is a relational practice—an act of weaving bodies, stories, and materials into inclusive, transformative spaces.

Title: Birthing Of Loom
Year: 2026
Medium: Participatory art performance, tapestry, bamboo
Statement:

My research explores gestures of movement, repetitive motion, and the ritual of weaving, alongside memories from my childhood connected to sewing with my mother. It reflects on how she navigated her life from Ipoh, Malaysia, in pursuit of a career as a tailor. This research examines how weaving and sewing can converge through participatory art, with my mother becoming part of the work itself—sewing elements of the piece and engaging in ongoing conversations with me. As a work in progress, the project centers on a mother and daughter in dialogue, unfolding a form of storytelling through thread. Through mending and sewing techniques, patterns of thread emerge as material links to intergenerational care, memory, and conversation.