Collection: QimmyShimmy - A Little Heart

A Little Heart is QimmyShimmy's third solo exhibition combining food, culture and memories. This series features QimmyShimmy’s twist on dim sum (点心), a style of Chinese cuisine that dates back to the Tang and Song dynasties but remains much loved and relevant today.

Interview with QimmyShimmy

Opening night: Saturday, September 7, from 6–9 pm. Free entry. QimmyShimmy will be in attendance.

This solo exhibition runs from September 8 to September 29, alongside Marina Dieul's show microKosmos & Miso's show Oleanders.

The sculptures, placed in traditional steamer baskets and porcelain bowls, combine the beauty of Chinese delicacies with the artist’s signature touch of macabre. The series started as a reaction to the common taunt that “Chinese people eat everything” and questions why a cuisine that has millennia of history and craft is rarely associated with elegance and beauty in cultures outside its own.

Lim Qi Xuan is a 27-year-old sculptor better known as Qimmyshimmy. She works as a designer by day and an artist by night, fueling her two passions with caffeine and even bigger dreams.

Her miniature sculptures, which are described by many as "creepy-cute," fuse the worlds of the real and the imagined, treading the fine line between horror and beauty. Her aesthetic sensibilities have been shaped by her love for fantasy stories, old curiosities and the idea of time travel and a yearning for worlds natural and make-believe.

QimmyShimmy's works have been showcased in galleries around the world, in such cities as New York, London, Milan, and Hong Kong. She is currently based in Singapore.