Post-Vanitas Era — Curatorial Statement Jiya Lim

 

Curatorial Statement

Jiya Lim — Post-Vanitas Era

Jiya Lim works with ceramics not as an end object, but as a material condition through which events unfold.
Her practice extends clay into ritualized actions, narrative art films, and serialized visual structures, forming a cohesive system rather than isolated works.
These actions are not staged performances but procedural acts whose primary existence is fixed through moving image.
By releasing these works first through networked platforms rather than institutional spaces, Lim repositions dissemination as part of the artwork’s structure.
Under the term Post-Vanitas Era, she proposes an aesthetic movement that shifts vanitas from the contemplation of death toward processes of endurance, transformation, and becoming.

Written for curatorial and institutional contexts.
Archived February 2026.

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