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The recurring theme of life and death, decay and renewal underpinned Justin Lim’s preoccupations on his return from the Red Gate Gallery residency in Beijing under the aegis of Khazanah National, and which culminated in his 5th solo, Arcane Fantasies For The Flesh And The Sublime at Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA), Kuala Lumpur, in 2013. Juxtaposing a human clad only in shorts and a skeletal effigy seated, makes an ironic twist to the phrase, ‘flesh and bones’, and the mutability of forms. Justin Lim works in paintings, mixed media, assemblages and installations. Justin Lim had his art tutelage in Singapore, first BFA (Hons) majoring in Painting and then MFA at the Open University in LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts (2006). Residencies followed at Taksu KL (2007), Rimbun Dahan, Selangor (2008), Vermont Centre, USA (2011), Red Gate Gallery (2012), and Tasmania College of the Arts, Australia. He started with Taksu KL, with his second solo, Secret Identities, in 2010, before joining RKFA in the 2014 Art Stage Singapore, No Other Paradise, in the SEA Pavilion, followed by a solo Modern Absurdity and the Superficial Abyss in 2015. He also took part in the Asia Young 36 at the Jeonbuk Museum of Art in South Korea and the Asian Art Biennale in 2009.