Yulia Bas's artwork explores the fragmentation of contemporary individuality, healing, and the body as a somatic memory tool. Across her paintings, sculptures, and installations, equilibrating between figuration and abstraction, Yulia employs unconventional materials to explore her perception of physical and mental thresholds, transitional states, and subjective wholeness. Guided by her personal journey of transformation through body therapy and meditation as well as her immigrant background, Yulia's work embodies her experience of multiplicity of self. She searches for ways to show the tension that comes from the necessity of coexisting with different identity faucets, real, digital, and imagined ones.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Yulia and Yoshino discuss creative struggles (00:03:05)
- How Yulia got her start in the arts (00:06:57)
- The importance of micro and macro decisions in life (00:10:15)
- Structuring and creating order, and knowing when to break out of it (00:15:02)
- Negative stereotypes of being an artist (00:17:44)
- Allowing vulnerabilities to inform us, and tapping back into a childlike mindset (00:24:53)
- Questioning what art is and expressing oneself honestly (00:37:05)
- Taking time for rest and contemplation, and trying not to overwork the process (00:43:11)
- Yulia talks about her painting process (00:49:28)
- Yulia speaks about experimentation and stepping into performance art (01:05:13)
- Yoshino speaks about studying martial arts and observing false narratives around masculinity and femininity (01:11:47)
- Advice Yulia would give to her younger self (01:36:57)