Julia Feyrer

Nascimento : , Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

História

Julia Feyrer (b. 1982, Lkwungen Territory, Canada; lives/works: unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Skxwú7mesh and Musqueam) roots their practice in a material engagement with celluloid filmmaking and sculpture, with emphasis on the body’s relationship to these media. They conceive of the camera as a bodily extension of the human sensorium—a device through which one can feel time and perception, and thereby aid or alter one’s experience of the world. Feyrer has an interest in herbals, which relates to this experimentation in aiding and altering perception. In their approach to sculpture, they incorporates material and objects from home and studio into cast objects and installations—from brushes and moulds to mirrors, coins, and herbal remedies. Feyrer often links their film to their sculptures, by positioning the gallery installation as film set; this method also creates overlaps from one project to the next. In their film Escape Scenes (2014), Feyrer takes a classic cinematic set up of a driving scene and inserts various sculptural, humorous structures to act as filters or screens that obscure the view through the car’s back window. As the artist drives through the city, the objects in the rearview change, and the speed of the vehicle and the wind alter their forms. The camera flattens these installations from three-dimensional, static objects into moving images, literally and figuratively, which live in a virtual timeline. Feyrer graduated with a Meisterschülerin from the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany in 2010, and received a Bachelor of Media Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2004. They have held solo exhibitions at Daziabo, Montreal (2010); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2018); POTTS, Los Angeles (2017); Western Front, Vancouver (2014); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2012); and Artspeak, Vancouver (2010). Their work has been included in group exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2017, 2016); the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2013); and Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver (2012). In collaboration with artist Tamara Henderson, Feyrer has presented exhibitions at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2016); Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016); Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia (2015); and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2013).

Filmes

Escape Scenes
Escape Scenes
Director
A miniature wrecking ball and accompanying mini brick wall to be destroyed; an incomplete puzzle of the Parthenon; homemade fake latex vomit containing plastic novelties, pieces of candy, knick knacks, and detritus from the artist’s studio; pennants made from packets and designer ziplock bags; and a mesh veil adorned with chewing gums. —Western Front
Sculpture Garden
Sculpture Garden
Director
An unedited film documenting a rooftop sculpture garden cultivated over a summer in Vancouver. The sculptures come alive but the vegetables are apathetic.
Dailies
Dailies
Director
The second film to feature a cast of assisted readymade clock sculptures (after Irregular Time Signatures). Starring “Sublimation Clock”, “Litmus Clock”, “Writer’s Block”, “Atomizer”, and “The Crypt.” Prior to shooting Dailies, the film and these clock sculptures were exhibited together in a 2011 exhibition in Malmö.
New Pedestrians
New Pedestrians
Director
“Background actors” silently inhabit the roles of pedestrians or passersby. Like an exercise in walking meditation, the pedestrians trace a path that is unstable, full of distractions, thoughts, and emotions, crises of identity, anxiety, and restlessness. —Julia Feyrer
Irregular Time Signatures
Irregular Time Signatures
Director
How does music measure time if time is stretched like a rubber band? Irregular time signatures are ways of describing an uneven beat. The arrhythmic pulse of this film is music lesson, math puzzle, and spot-the-difference game.
The Composition Kids
The Composition Kids
Director
An early student collaboration and shot on 16mm in Sicily, this cycle of kinetic assemblages is accompanied by a soundtrack composed of improvised sounds recorded on location and then in Vancouver.
Bottles Under the Influence
Bottles Under the Influence
Director
Julia Feyrer and Tamara Henderson work across film, sculpture, writing and bookmaking. The body of work in this exhibition took its starting point from Feyrer and Henderson's collaborative 16mm film Bottles Under the Influence (2012), made with bottles from the collection of the Historical Museum of Wine & Spirits in Stockholm. The bottles are documented, staged, positioned, studied, projected on, tucked in bed, drunk from, and shot at. Like bodies made of glass, they appear headless, armless, and footless, with lips and necks. These vessels hold the contents of the film. Bottles Under the Influence is an exhibition of interconnected film sets: a pest detective's office, a dream-world press bar, a sleep-inducing herb garden, and a cinema. A 16mm film of the same name as the exhibition plays in the cinema, shot and researched by the artists at the Historical Wine and Spirits Museum in Stockholm.