Sculpture (MA)
Julie Maurin
Armed with a sneaky attitude, I explore mine and other people’s ongoing greediness, whilst always in search for intimacy. From bits and pieces, people and places - the universe and its disturbing strangeness become my authentic playground. Cutting, arranging, collaging together precarious materials at a slow pace, my process is tedious and never over.
born 07.11.1993
in Marseille (France)
education
2018 - 2020 ma sculpture royal college of art, london
2015 - 2017 ma accessories ensav la cambre, brussels
2015 - 2012 ba textile design ensba lyon, france
solo shows
2017
synthetic despair, 425 avenue louise, brussels
2016
mydriasis, abbaye de la cambre, brussels
2013
per vedere - pervers?, ensba, lyon
group shows
2020
belladonna, berlin (upcoming)
2019
belladonna, cld art café, buse building, london
interior futures, courtyard gallery, london
deep neuro imagining, ugly duck, london
unpeelin’ the onion, dorando close, london
2016
lotion, the community, paris
work experience
2019 : personal assistant of Giulia Cenci, lyon biennale
2016 : studio assistant at Jolan van der Wiel, amsterdam
2015 : studio assistant at Karolina York, sydney
2014 : personal assistant of Shilo Engelbrecht, stockholm
Lately, I presented « Vizavi » (face-to-face), a disposable installation taking place in various locations around the city of London. Just like a wanderer resigned to leave his possessions behind, it is a call for unshackling. These « deceptive détournements » don’t belong to a locked room and they only find their true meaning when taken outside. Therefore they are plucked from their safety nest and brought to their most vulnerable states. Adorned of uncommon and unpredictable objects, the toilet space loses its triviality and derives from anthropocentrism in order to become a space ready to be invested by new forms of artificial life. I also venture to take the decision to abandon part of my work in the city. Just as you enter the toilet space to leave an accumulation of things behind, I decided to do the same and to let go part of my art which now belongs to the public sphere.
