JULIA ABRAHAM

Current visual arts practice includes bridging theoretical research of human memory with visual representations through paint, performance, and video. I am interested in looking at the discrepancies between how we subjectively and personally understand memory and the descriptive and perhaps more concrete understanding that science provides. Further research includes investigating the transformation of mnemonic signs through iconoclastic shifting, as a result of intentional manipulation or natural disintegration.

During various international relocations an interest in the relationship between memory and the landscape began to develop. My interests lie in the analyses of phenomenological and intersubjective understandings of place as well as conceptually driven representations of disparate lands. I am interested in the role of the physical landscape as a fundamental element in the shaping of memory, and how, as a result of dislocation, memory has the ability to shift and reformulate itself.