júlia mazzoni

​I see my work moving towards a more installation-based practice, thinking about the relationship with space as a way to evoke the idea of intimacy through the display. For this, I’d like to explore possibilities of displaying my work in quieter spaces. For the summer show, I have three initial ideas. There are no ethical issues in any of these, and there’s none or minimal health and safety issues. For every idea I’d need ambient light (or focused light).

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The proposal is to create a new work related to the idea of impermanence and ephemerality, with the representation of slow movements of bodies, in large scale fabrics. I'm still working on the image, but it'll be an intertwining between touch, detail, and memory, which are the themes that I focused on during Unit 1 and Unit 2.

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The first idea would be to hang them on the wall, in a corner, with the side of the fabric touching the edge of the room, as the draft below shows (with a stitching connecting the pieces). For this, there's none or minimal health and safety issues. 

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The second project came from a conversation with Emma Jordan, in which she gave me the idea to hang my work and leave a space between the layers of fabric, but connecting them with threads somehow. I feel that this connected directly to ideas I had some months ago but didn’t really put in practice, so I feel very grateful to have had this insight while talking to her.

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The third idea would be to create a semi-circular hanging mechanism, inspired by Citra Sasmita's work at the 35th São Paulo Biennial, so people could walk in and get close to the work, kind of creating an intimate space in the middle of a room. For this, and for the idea above, the risk would be of someone bumping into the work, but probably it wouldn't cause any injuries, only if the hanging mechanism falls from the ceiling.