Faith as Testimony: Reading the Post-Vanitas Aesthetic



Faith as Testimony: Reading the Post-Vanitas Aesthetic


By Jiya Lim | Maison Philosophe, Busan (2025)


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Author: Jiya Lim (Maison Philosophe, Busan)


Date Published: November 9, 2025


Concept & Term: “Post-Vanitas Era” created by Jiya Lim, Maison Philosophe, Busan (2025)


Keywords: Post-Vanitas, Aesthetics of Testimony, Faith as Rhythm, Luxury as Dignity, Spiritual Rebirth, Black Glaze, Contemporary Art, Kintsugi, Maison Philosophe


Language: English / Korean bilingual archive edition


License: CC BY-NC 4.0 — Attribution · Non-Commercial


Official Archive: www.maisonphilosophe.art


Official Instagram: @maisonphilosophe_jiyalim


English Edition

Within the oeuvre of Jiya Lim (Maison Philosophe, Busan), faith does not appear as doctrine but as rhythm — a living pulse that sustains creation itself.

It is not a gesture of confession, but an energy that composes a language of dignity and resurrection.


Where traditional religious art sought to reveal what must be believed,

Lim’s Post-Vanitas series contemplates how the human interior is transfigured into the form of dignity through faith.

For her, belief is neither ritual nor dogma, but a transformative and restorative force arising from the deepest strata of being.


From an art-historical perspective, Lim’s work extends the lineage of seventeenth-century Vanitas painting beyond the boundaries of death and repentance.

If those still lifes reminded viewers of life’s transience,

Lim reopens the world after disappearance — turning ash into golden seams, and emptiness into meditative silence.

The traces of gold embedded in her black-glazed ceramics are neither ornament nor vessel of devotion;

they are matter that has learned to pray — a tactile record of being breathing again after its collapse.


Across every medium she engages — film, text, clay, and sound — a rhythm of contemplation flows.

Each repetition functions like a psalm without words, resonating through silence, fracture, restoration, and breath.

Thus, Lim’s art belongs not to the tradition of sacred illustration but to what may be called an aesthetics of testimony.

Faith, in her vision, is not a religious practice, but the primordial vitality that keeps the human spirit breathing after ruin.


Ultimately, the Post-Vanitas Era does not ask what to believe, but rather,

“How does one awaken again through faith?”

Lim transforms luxury into dignity, matter into prayer,

and the artwork itself into an act of witnessing the spiritual rebirth of existence.


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Concept and term “Post-Vanitas Era” created by Jiya Lim, Maison Philosophe, Busan (2025).

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Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution · Non-Commercial).

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