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There is a celebratory quality about the notion of death in Justin Lim’s art (from the exhibition, Arcane Fantasies for the Flesh and The Sublime at Richard Koh Fine Art in Kuala Lumpur in April-May 2013). The boar, a maligned animal in some society, trapped on its hind legs and hoisted up high like a trophy, before it is claimed by the hunters. Flower bouquets adorn its body like the Haight-Ashbury hippies in the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Justin Lim’s works touch on politics, culture and religion.“…There is a sense of decay throughout this body of works. A lot of them (show) dead flowers, dead trees, dying birds…; an accumulation of things that used to be alive.” – Justin LimLife After Decay: New Start, New Works, from Justin Lim(By Suraya Warden)Justin Lim took part in the Asian Art Biennale in Taipei in 2008. His artist’s residencies include Vermont Studio Centre in the United States (2011), Rimbun Dahan (2008) and Red Gate Gallery in Beijing (under Khazanah’s sponsorship, 2012). His solos include Momentum (Taksu KL, 2006), Agents, Actions & Consequences (Taksu KL, 2007), Gods, Heroes & Myths (Rimbun Dahan 2009), Secret Identities (Taksu KL, 2010) and Modern Absurdity and the Superficial Abyss (Richard Koh FA, 2015). He received his MFA from the Open University conducted at Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore, and a BFA majoring in Painting. He graduated with a diploma in Visual and Digital Art at the Limkokwing Institute of Creative Technology (2003). At the Henry Butcher April 2013 auction, an Untitled (acrylic on canvas and silkscreen print on Perspex box) sold for RM4,950.