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Julia Kremer presents a floating artwork, both movement and stillness.

The artist creates panoramas stitched from scattered pieces, like a nebula stretching endlessly outward. In her work, space is never enclosed and invites continuity. What’s absent holds as much weight as what’s shown. A subtle reorganization of our world takes shape through the accumulation of scraps, vivid testaments to our fragmented and disjointed environment. Multiplicity, in the sense of copy, leads to a transfiguration of visual language, like solitary waves intersecting and overlapping. There’s something invasive at play here, like contested territories in flux. Looking at Julia Kremer’s work, one might imagine a ravaged landscape strewn with rubble.

A formal unity emerges through her signature use of black-and-white photocopy aesthetics, sometimes interrupted by rare flashes of color. These faint but potent vibrations act as openings, glimpses of a colored memory piercing the monochrome of recollection. Faced with surrounding chaos, we are left to turn our gaze toward these works composed of pixelated stars. They offer an escape, a contemplative refuge held within their captivating presence. The artist does nonetheless more than reproduce images, she deconstructs them. She dissects their visual logic, exposing not only their hidden complexity but also their emptiness and artificiality. Through a process akin to zooming in on textures and details, Julia Kremer and/or the photocopier creates distortion and disfigurement. Advertising elements become blurred, almost unrecognizable. She creates a kind of ultra-advertising, an image stripped bare, pushed to the limit of abstraction.