Julie Mia
27.06.2025 – 17.08.2025
Ashton Hall
3AP
Ashton Hall? A place, a figure, a story – or none of the above? Julie Mia’s second solo exhibition at Galerie 3AP Frankfurt carries a title that functions like an echo. The artist’s work investigates the fragility of meaning – as an aesthetic principle, an existential condition, and a critical commentary on the relationship between image, material, and perception. Her interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly between sculpture, painting, photography, and installation. Her works emerge through processes of translation: from analog to digital, from object to image, from functional to symbolic, from concrete to abstract. Everyday materials – spoons, knives, screenshots – are deliberately altered and recontextualized. The result: forms that resist clarity and remain open, suspended, and in flux. A central focus of the exhibition is Julie Mia’s recent engagement with steel, sparked by her participation in the 3rd International Sculpture Symposium in spring 2025. Here, steel becomes a conceptual agent, carrying questions of resistance, transformation, and permanence.
The myth of Sisyphus, as interpreted by Albert Camus, serves as a philosophical anchor. In her repeated gestures, translations, and material shifts, Mia reflects the absurd conflict between the human search for meaning and the world’s fundamental meaninglessness. Ashton Hall is not a place, not a person, not a story – but a condition. A space between memory and materiality, where meaning is never fixed, but continuously reshaped and reimagined through Julie Mia’s poetic visual language. Those interested in exploring Julie Mia’s work beyond the exhibition are invited to visit the Union grounds in eastern Frankfurt, where her work Vanity – a 3-meter-high wall sculpture depicting a knife tray – was installed last year.
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