Julia Faber
In her most recent work, the painter Julia Faber explores nature and technology by combining nature and robots that imitate the creatures that surround them. She does so by blending painting and intricate drawing. What makes a living creature? What is the difference between a machine and an animal? These are questions that her hyperrealistic painting raises, taking us into a surreal world. In her series of works in which she uses devices to perfect the human body like corsets, she includes them as tools that enables man to “happily programs himself toward his own optimum” as she puts it, where he becomes “creator and creature in one, an artist of his own self resting in finiteness.” Her work evokes themes like well-being, health, and beauty, which she contrasts with rules and the disciplining of bodies.
Faber has had numerous solo exhibitions in locations like Lisabird Contemporary in Vienna, MA Galley in Villach, Austria, Kunstraum Praterstraße in Vienna, Austria, 'Schikaneder' in Vienna, Austria, and Zöbing in Austria. Group exhibitions include those at "Fifteen seconds festival" in Graz, Dessous Wien, Lisabird Contemporary in Vienna, Austria, Kunstraum Praterstraße 15 in Vienna, Austria, Offspace Utrecht in the Netherlands, Gallery 'Das Bilt' in Utrecht, …
In her most recent work, the painter Julia Faber explores nature and technology by combining nature and robots that imitate the creatures that surround them. She does so by blending painting and intricate drawing. What makes a living creature? What is the difference between a machine and an animal? These are questions that her hyperrealistic painting raises, taking us into a surreal world. In her series of works in which she uses devices to perfect the human body like corsets, she includes them as tools that enables man to “happily programs himself toward his own optimum” as she puts it, where he becomes “creator and creature in one, an artist of his own self resting in finiteness.” Her work evokes themes like well-being, health, and beauty, which she contrasts with rules and the disciplining of bodies.
Faber has had numerous solo exhibitions in locations like Lisabird Contemporary in Vienna, MA Galley in Villach, Austria, Kunstraum Praterstraße in Vienna, Austria, 'Schikaneder' in Vienna, Austria, and Zöbing in Austria. Group exhibitions include those at "Fifteen seconds festival" in Graz, Dessous Wien, Lisabird Contemporary in Vienna, Austria, Kunstraum Praterstraße 15 in Vienna, Austria, Offspace Utrecht in the Netherlands, Gallery 'Das Bilt' in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.
