Lim Jin Sil expresses the coexistence of self and others and the sense of heterogeneity resulting from the differences between individuals through old media such as old houses and rusty windows.
Lim says that communication with others is incomplete as one cannot understand the other as a whole due to each other's different past experiences and perceptions. In the absence of complete communication, the contradictory appearance of disconnection and communication is evoked through her work. Lim Jin Sil, who is interested in old things, collects things forgotten from memory, such as old houses and windows that appear in scenes from classic Korean movies, and recombines or dismantles the collected images to create her works. The brick houses, blue tile roofs, faded walls, and outdated windows become a medium that takes the audience back to their own childhood memories.
The sunset light, chirping birds, and the light in the eyes of a stray cat depicted in the work remind us of the stories that occurred in the background of the work and the atmosphere of that moment. The titles of the works are extremely personal and realistic, such as <Gye-dong Maternal Grandma's House> and <A Green Roof at 3:30>, and the artist expresses the real landscape with dreamy colors and a surreal painting style, allowing the reality trapped within the confines of consciousness to escape from the outside of everyday life. It is transformed into a space that escapes from. The mixture of reality and the unconscious is reconstructed as an extremely private and magnetized space that each person has experienced differently in various spaces.