Megan Renee Lim
Megan has exhibited her works for “EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN” and “ECHOES ECHOESECHOES” as well as “The Grad Expectations 2024”.
She was selected to intern at National Gallery Singapore under the Learning and Outreach Team, where she created tour programmesand had the opportunity to work on an art cart activity for the exhibition “SEE ME SEE YOU”.
Her most recent solo works are “Dissection Butchery”, “Normal Person, Normal Day” and “Dermis Cell”.
Through the usage of medical horror tropes intertwined with psychology to elicit empathetic and meaningful narratives of the human condition, allowing for others to reflect and settle in their own prejudices they may hold within without realising it. I hope to create artworks that can resonate with others with similar struggles and to find comfort in the unsettling nature of my work.
Year: 2026
Medium: Chicken Bones, Fabric, Petri Dishes, Glass Containers, Steel Trolley, Metal Wire
Statement:
Megan’s research centres around the monstrous body in relation to medical conditions, from her own experiences and others navigating a society like Singapore. Normalcy being the societal push that punishes individuals unable to comply to the standards placed, leading to the abjection and alienation of individuals who are perceived as “ monsters “ or just an inconvenience. Megan questions this idea through the process of preserving chicken bones and weaving fabric limbs, it masquerades what is not inherently human into one that is familiar. Understanding the narrative of being human and the anxiety of productivity and conformity. She continues to embody the forced performance given to those without a choice, and to be recognized by the abled-body that labels them.