
Julia Masvernat
#14, 2018

Julia Masvernat elaborates images, objects and installations, based on absorbing her urban …

“I like working on the edges of the art fields, the intersections, erasing the limits,” says Julia Masvernat, a mixed-media artist who works in collage, printmaking, installation, sculpture, animation, and interactive games and on various collaborative projects with other artists. Her exquisite sense of color unifies her diverse output. Her works are largely abstract, replete with vibrant colors and patterns that she composes intuitively or invites viewers to arrange themselves (as is the case with her animated interactive pieces). Her works also include a series of installations, which she builds up piece by piece using individual sheets of brightly colored paper and lots of glue. Working across floors, walls, and ceilings, she arranges the paper into patterns resembling Op Art compositions. For Masvernat, these installations are one of the many bridges she builds between artistic disciplines and between art and life.


Julia Masvernat elaborates images, objects and installations, based on absorbing her urban environment and its tensions: the mutant natural-artificial space of the city. In her studio she stubbornly tests the strengths and limits of each material (paper, paint, wood, light). The results are objects, drawings, collages …

“I like working on the edges of the art fields, the intersections, erasing the limits,” says Julia Masvernat, a mixed-media artist who works in collage, printmaking, installation, sculpture, animation, and interactive games and on various collaborative projects with other artists. Her exquisite sense of color unifies her diverse output. Her works are largely abstract, replete with vibrant colors and patterns that she composes intuitively or invites viewers to arrange themselves (as is the case with her animated interactive pieces). Her works also include a series of installations, which she builds up piece by piece using individual sheets of brightly colored paper and lots of glue. Working across floors, walls, and ceilings, she arranges the paper into patterns resembling Op Art compositions. For Masvernat, these installations are one of the many bridges she builds between artistic disciplines and between art and life.