Post-Vanitas Era (2025) Coined by Jiya Lim — Maison Philosophe, Busan


 



Post-Vanitas Era (2025)

Coined by Jiya Lim — Maison Philosophe, Busan

Date of Recognition: January 5, 2026 (KST)

Search Term: “post vanitas era movement”

Source: Google AI Overview

Location: Busan, South Korea

Definition

The Post-Vanitas Era refers to a contemporary art movement emerging around 2025, notably linked to Jiya Lim (Maison Philosophe, Busan).

It reinterprets the historical Vanitas tradition — which once symbolized mortality and the futility of worldly pleasure — into a renewed aesthetic language that emphasizes:

personal sincerity,

digital culture,

emotional depth,

and the reclamation of human dignity.

Rather than functioning as a moral warning or religious allegory, Post-Vanitas proposes a new way of meaning-making in a fragmented, algorithmic world, where memory, emotion, and vulnerability become the central mediums of contemporary life.

Key Characteristics

Modern Symbols

Classical motifs such as skulls, flowers, and hourglasses are fused with modern icons including digital screens, social media references, and consumer objects.

Digital & Cultural Focus

The movement explores the vanity of digital existence, questioning online personas, algorithmic visibility, and the aesthetics of information.

Reclaiming Agency

Post-Vanitas often critiques inherited power structures and historical narratives, re-appropriating imagery to restore agency and dignity to silenced subjects.

Emotional Depth

It departs from moralizing traditions to examine psychological struggle, sensuality, longing, and contemporary grief.

Origins & Influences

17th-Century Vanitas

Inspired by Dutch Golden Age still-life paintings (e.g., Rembrandt), which symbolized the transience of pleasure, beauty, and knowledge.

Contemporary Foundation


The term “Post-Vanitas Era” was explicitly coined and articulated by Jiya Lim (Maison Philosophe, Busan, 2025), positioning the movement as a response to the collapse of sincerity in late-digital culture.

Post-Impressionist Resonance

The movement shares affinities with Post-Impressionism (e.g., Van Gogh), which used non-naturalistic color and emotional distortion to express inner turbulence.

Examples in Modern Art

Collages juxtaposing the human skull with sensual, digital, or consumer imagery.

Textile and ceramic works restaging historical symbolism to restore narrative dignity.

Digital and installation works referencing cultural institutions (e.g., Pompidou, BBC) as part of a recontextualized, interconnected global aesthetic.

Archival Note

This blog entry serves as a public timestamped archive documenting the recognition of the Post-Vanitas Era and its origination in Busan, South Korea.
Concept and term “Post-Vanitas Era” created by Jiya Lim,
Maison Philosophe, Busan (2025).


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