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H.H. Lim has not forgotten the heraldry of the Malayan (Malaysian) tiger since he studied Art in Rome in 1976 and set up a base there. In several recent portfolios of works, the Neo-Conceptual artist had suggested virtuous manifestations of the national animal, inviting wanton interactions with drawings of tigers by stepping on the drawn paper or deliberately dropping streaks of ink over it. This was so in the exhibition cum crowd-performance in the exhibition, The Beginning of Something, at Wei-Ling Contemporary in March 2014. There are drawings of tigers striking towards the viewer, standing inside profile or majestically at rest, all besmirched with ink stains. Is it just a paper tiger or zhilaohu? What it portends, or the emotional gamut elicited, is left to the audience's perceptions or experiences. Lim, often referred to as Peter Lim, has played around with the tiger theme in works like Tiger And A Box On A Trolley and The Hidden Treasure: The Tiger Of Malaysia. H.H. Lim is one of Malaysia's high profiled contemporary artists based in Rome since 1976 when he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, and featured in major institutional exhibitions and scholarly books. His laurels include the Prague Biennale; Singapore Biennale; Tirana Biennale (2005); Venice Biennale (Cuban Pavilion, 2013; Architectural in 2010; and Malaysian Pavilion, 2019). Yet, little was known about him until he was invited by Datuk Ibrahim Hussein in his first Langkawi International Art Festival in 2000. His busy highlights include the John Cage Experiments and Its Context, NCCA, Moscow; Il Tesora Nascosto, The Westin Excelsior in Rome (2012); Gone With The Wind (Ullens Centre, Beijing, 2010); Timezone (Vienna, Austria, 2016); Emotional Crisis (Rome, 2015); Daily Music (Izu Zone, Penang, 2012); The Beginning of Something (Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur, 2014); La Nuit Blanche (Paris, 2013); ConcentrAzione (Milan, 2011); Hidden Treasure (Tang Gallery, Bangkok, 2011); Wherever We Go (San Francisco, 2007); Super (Carquefou, France, 2006); Luoghi D'affezione (Brussels Belgium, 2003); Urban Flashes (Istanbul, 2003); Dream 2 (London, 2002); and Speechless, The Sky From The Well (Taipei, 2001).