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Lydia Maria Julien
Lydia Maria Julien
Lydia Maria Julien
Born in Britain in 1976, Lydia Maria Julien graduated from Central St. Martins College of Art, in 2007. Julien’s photographic works have been exhibited at major public institutions in the UK including the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, West Dean Gallery, Sussex, and inclusion in Hidden Talents (2004), Hidden Talents II (2006) at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Her work has also been included in international group exhibitions including the University Art Museum, California.
Julien’s work is centred on investigating the body in relation to time and space and investigating the physicality of the body. Sometimes using her own body in her photographs and elsewhere using the bodies of models, Julien’s photography works are performative in nature and are shown in series. Although intended as final still images, the photographic images are commonly born from a performance, where the body is staged in some manner over time before being photographed. The photograph is thus the final stage of a private performance, revealed in place of that performance. Julien has said of her photography, “It is nervous, anticipatory, physical – a photograph is as much a work to have a visceral sense as well as a visual sense”.
Julien’s work is centred on investigating the body in relation to time and space and investigating the physicality of the body. Sometimes using her own body in her photographs and elsewhere using the bodies of models, Julien’s photography works are performative in nature and are shown in series. Although intended as final still images, the photographic images are commonly born from a performance, where the body is staged in some manner over time before being photographed. The photograph is thus the final stage of a private performance, revealed in place of that performance. Julien has said of her photography, “It is nervous, anticipatory, physical – a photograph is as much a work to have a visceral sense as well as a visual sense”.