Research
Julia Mari is an artist interested in the boundaries between materiality, imagination, race and aesthetics. Her work disrupts the two-dimensionality of oil painting with sculptural textile elements, uprooting places of assumed static determination and filling them with childlike memorabilia, pequi trees and puppy dogs. Tactility is also an essential factor in both the making and presenting of the artwork, highlighting a process that involves the handcrafting of each step—from prepping to painting, sewing and assembling.Finally, the reception and sharing of these intimately crafted objects is just as important as their initial creative impulses. With that, their inherent warm and inviting nature has led to her research into the contemporary role of cuteness as an aesthetic category, its cross-cultural impact in the visual arts field and its ties to unfulfilled comfort.
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