15th—28th February 2021
Preamble. . .
Living in an age where much of our communication is happening digitally, particularly when plunged in to a pandemic, I felt it important to allow an artist exploring that space to utilise the After Illusion platform. Juls Gabs has given us some incredible insight into her practice over the past two weeks, exploring a new location in London for us to go and visit to experience her work first hand. To those of you living in London who can currently get over to Festival Pier—I am jealous!
Art lovers everywhere are craving the feeling of being to see art in person again, and gabs has given us that: digital artwork that is meant to be viewed digitally! What a wonder.
Skye Williams (Founder & Head Curator)
An Instagram Festival Peer effect that you can activat at Festival Pier (southside Thames River London) that will transport you to a digi garden, made out of paintings.
EVASIONS OF THE PSYCHE takes place virtually, via an Instagram effect, when visiting Festival Pier, London. For an explanatory video on how access the work, please head over to the After Illusion Instagram account.
Spot the man hiding amongst the installation!
Visit Gloucester Terrace as part of the INVASIONS OF THE PSYCHE via Google Maps on Juls Gabs website. www.julsgabs.com
Visit DIGITAL HOUSE via Google Maps on Juls Gabs website. www.julsgabs.com
“My work experiments in merging The Digital into our lives” Juls Gabs' researches emerging folklore from the digital era. Many social advances are installed online, however, fear stops its natural progress in The Physical life. Things like borders vanish; free information and expansion of our personas on social media, fluidity into a non-genderised/human-pixel versions of each of our personas exist online. It is in this hybrid where Juls’ digital-handcraft take place and the mix of techniques: Painting, Web-Art, Augmented Reality, Instagram Effects, Tapestry, GIF; merge into one another, developing a new language of freedom. The classic oil+linen portrait is now substituted by algorithms in accounts. Every Netflix query, Google search and Pinterest save is your portrait. Juls’ art provides an opportunity for her audience to play with and experience the lives of her characters. This enables us to discover new “truths” in our everyday lives and create new scenarios. Her practice naturally moving towards increased interaction, integration, and experience. I want to give the viewer the opportunity to see an augmented reality freely, to interact with changing circumstances and environments.
Contact Juls Gabs Instagram: @julsgabs www.julsgabs.com
After Illusion is an online residency opportunity for artists, writers, and creatives at any stage of their career. Residencies take place twice per month and are two weeks in length. At the end of each residency, a zine is put together about the resident’s work, and published online.
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