Julia Albrecht

Julia Albrecht is a German lens-based artist. Her work examines the linkage between sociological and gender-scientific research and is intensively preoccupied with personal experiences. It constantly draws from a profound curiosity for humanitarian issues and cultural phenomena. Her body of work touches the realms of the paradoxical in life. Through the camera, she vividly tries to reach the mind and explore the depths of life and its emotions. According to her, these topics are just everyday things we all have to get through. Her focus points oscillate between pain and joy, letting life in and having it taken away again.

Her works stem from what she encountered growing up in a small village in eastern Germany: from everyday life matters like the horses, the hay, her dad's scrapyard and his hands full of motor oil, and rainbow reflections in a small corner to more dire local issues. These roots continuously influence her work, as does her love for art psychology, biology, and gender studies.

Drawing on personal experience allows the work to emerge from memory. This is like a clinical process of autobiographical reflection, requiring a very close look to abstract it again. The way it is presented enables the viewer to take a new look at the subject matter through uncertainty and find their memories again.

The materials in her installations form a contrast and resemble a balancing act. The subject matter is found between the wellbeing and discomfort, the thesis and the antithesis of each individual. Finding one's way in society is like walking a tightrope from birth. The spaces between identity and memory emerge from this imbalance.