Julia Thompson: Soft Furnishing

Julia Thompson’s practice moves in and between sculpture, video, installation
and drawing — all stemming from an ever growing collection of saved images and
letters of those no longer in reach yet persistent in presence. Thompson works
from the process of mould making, which is to say, she fills a cavity with clear,
shimmering and soft materials. Casting puffy sculptures that simultaneously
preserve and let go of their contents, ultimately spoiling the trapped images and
letters making up their core.

“A Julia Thompson sculpture is the thing itself. Its primary referent is the site
of its own decaying, transforming physicality. Her works are not just analogues
for the human - specifically female, wounded - body, but are subject to the same
effects imposed by the environment they inhabit, enacting in their own way the
mechanisms of the living organism.”