Joshua Sim is an emerging lens-based artist and a Philosophy and Anthropology student from Melbourne, Australia. His critical yet creative way of seeing the world is grounded in his experiences of growing up mixed-race in Australia , his love for his Chinese Peranakan and Goan Indian heritage, as well as a unique mix of interests that compel him to explore the complexities of the human condition. Joshua has held a number of exhibitions and galleries across Melbourne and beyond in hopes to continue creating dialogue about shared experiences such as belonging, alienation, liberty, and other modern-day problems through art and public speaking.
Every artwork I create begins with one simple question:
“How can I use the camera as a tool for expressing philosophical ideas?”
Art for me then, is the reality that is situated behind the veil that we all wear throughout each day of our lives. It is this veil that has been constructed by the world to which we have been thrown upon, remaining glued to our bodies to calm the chaos that is materialist reality. Art then, is that underlying layer of truth - to which such dimensions and meanings weaken their grip around our psyche, and our imagination reaches its true freedom. No longer bound to any fixed concept, art acts as the piercing nexus that helps us to break free from our own self-made prison and dispositions, to allow us in reaching our rightful, inherited pandemonium.
Story of Eli (Self Portrait), Acrylic on Photograph