THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT :: Julie Weitz

November 4, 2016

CUNSTHAUS

The exhibition is a vivid hallucination of the artist’s exploration of her body as a sculptural object. Shot almost entirely with a GoPro camera attached to her head and hips, Weitz insinuates the perspective of a lover as she interacts with a headless, limbless sculpture of herself. Layered in dreamlike sequences of saturated color, the video’s hypnotic imagery is accompanied by a resonating soundtrack composed of binaural beats and recordings. In question is the artist’s relationship to herself as an object of desire, enacted through sculptural and photographic means.

Julie Weitz is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. Her videos, installations and photographs examine the experience of embodiment in the digital realm. She uses physical props, often cast from her own body parts, and combines “anti-CGI” aesthetics to make work that blurs the boundaries between sensory perception and material reality.