Throughput

Hings Lim

March 5,  2026 - April 11, 2026

island is excited to present Throughput, a solo exhibition by Hings Lim. In his second solo presentation with the gallery, Lim positions turmeric (kunyit) as a case study for, and methodological antithesis of, technological, linguistic, and organic transmission. The term throughput assumes a system, measuring the data which is successfully presented at its end, the result always less than what is theoretically possible. Kunyit stains, easily traceable as a sacred, medicinal botanical material. In Malay, the word is also used as a slur for queer bodies. As kunyit moves through them, it diffracts boundaries, highlighting the tension between organism and the technological systems through which they are processed.


Hings Lim (b. 1989, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) works in an expanded range of the medium that includes video, installation, sculpture, performance, simulation, and situation. His process-oriented practice probes the formation of apparatuses and addresses the multiplicities between historicity, performativity, materiality, subjectivity of things and their becoming.

Lim is currently based in Los Angeles, United States. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree and the Performance Studies Graduate Certificate at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 2021, as a recipient of the USC International Artist Fellowship; and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia in 2012. He is a recipient of the Petronas – P. Ramlee Chair’s Award in 2012 and completed the Southeast Asian Artist Residency Program at Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia in 2018.

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