With Capsules, Luxembourg Art Week takes over vacant spaces, store windows, and façades in the city center. Each activated space will be visible from the street around the clock.
Capsules benefits from the generous support of the City of Luxembourg.
Julie Krakowski
Murmuration (Sans-titre)
Location
12, rue Louvigny, L-1946 Luxembourg
Art Walk Challenge
Murmuration: the chosen word comes from a natural animal phenomenon: the random, fluid movements of large flocks of birds in flight, like living clouds. Julie Krakowski’s installation is dedicated to a moment — a suspended form, or perhaps a kind of levitation. The artist unfolds her hybrid corpus of glass figures at the corner of a bustling street. Familiar, sometimes intimate details can be discerned — beads, seeds, hair, pins — intertwined with glass threads and filament materials. Objects that play on variation: between tentacles, folds, and strange, luxuriant compositions. We witness a fragile tension between slowness and permanence. The proximity and density of the pieces lead us toward a subtle shift in movement. The perspective multiplies. We are drawn upward, if only for an instant. Surprised, we bounce back gently, peacefully.
Multidisciplinary artist Julie Krakowski (b. 1986, France) places materiality at the heart of her practice. The multiplicity of gestures involved and the testing of materials form the basis of a language that is both complex and intuitive. To develop her approach, she works primarily with soft materials, which she combines with others such as glass, sound, video, and more. At first glance, the meaning of her works is not immediately apparent. Her pieces suggest ambivalence, creating a tension between desire and repulsion, between fascination and unease. Julie engages in a dialogue between a plurality of notions: the passage of time, our intimate relationship to sensation and memory, and corporeality. Through a fluid sculptural process, she explores the interstitial zones between hard and soft, outline and form, gestures and habits.
Trained in textiles at La Cambre ENSAV, Julie regards flexibility as a quality of the mind. She approaches her work as a large experimental laboratory where cross-disciplinary exploration is a key aspect of her research. In 2021, she had the opportunity to undertake a residency at the Fondation d’entreprise Martell, where she collaborated with glassblower Jean-Charles Miot. She was captivated by the malleability of the material, its transparency, and fragility. A few months later, she began self-taught glassblowing, developing a body of forms that she used to create installations. In 2022, she started collaborating with several people on sound dimensions, and currently she is exploring different performative modes of activating her installations.
Interview of Julie Krakowski
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