In the exhibition 'À Marée Basse' (2023) at Galerie BAQ, 'Letter To The Sea' (2019) by Lim Sokchanlina takes over the gallery's ancient stonewalled basement. The installation invites viewers to stand in front of a plexiglass panel containing scans of the original letter printed on transparent tracing paper. In front of them is the video 'Letter To The Sea' shows the artist delivering his words under the sea at Koh Kut (Kut Island, near the border between Cambodia and Thailand). The letter is the artist's tribute to his 'brothers', the anonymous Cambodian fishermen who died while being enslaved by the Thai fishing industry, and who were discovered by the Cambodian government in 2015.

'Letter to the Sea' is commissioned by the Singapore Biennale 2019 and is part of a larger project entitled 'Cambodian Migrant Workers in Asia - A Conversation', which spans Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, and Hong Kong (China). This particular work is the result of research conducted in Thailand in early 2019 (Chapter).