Julie Falk

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About The Work

For CHART in Tivoli 2024 Julie Falk presents a series of body-sized, rosy-skinned marble slabs that are balancing, tall, and thin. The sculptures are perforated as if after a biopsy, pointing at how we as bodies ultimately always share matter, as the title says “I’m Not One”.

During CHART weekend, "I’m Not One" creates a straight line from Tivoli Gardens to the main venue of CHART Art Fair at Charlottenborg. Here, the rosy-skinned marble slabs, hanging from the ceiling of Sharp Project's gallery booth, form a series of perforated stone bodies in dialogue across the city center of Copenhagen.

In her first large-scale solo exhibition, Antiform, Falk took discarded bodies as a point of departure—from bronze casts of hair cut from hospital-prescribed wigs to enlargements of cardboard tubes from used fireworks, giant phallic figures that seem over-run, deformed, and embrittled, resting on the floor in the exhibition’s front space. Falk points to the bodily displacement of the artist herself, working away from the studio, as an inverse or anti-position, operating at odds, and meanwhile collecting scrap materials—forms that are discarded, abject, or thrown from use or even from art: Antiforms.

With a nod to the 1960s situationist movement, Falk turns around existing systems or architecture. The arrested pace of the hospitalized body—in bed as if “incarcerated” and working from confinement—is the baseline of Julie Falk’s (DK, 1991) recent sculptural and filmic works.

About The Artist

In her sculpture and film-based works, Julie Falk (b. 1991, DK) employs the correlations between subtraction, productivity, value, and surface. Elsewhere is where Falk’s work takes place. Using experiences outside the means of production she applies cardboard, found text, marble scraps, or a camera phone. By appropriating, rearranging, and deconstructing, her works are not without form, but resist borders and finiteness – they challenge the hierarchy of the coherent whole and attempt to subvert dominant structures.

Julie Falk is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark, educated at Konsthogskolna Malmö, Sweden. Falk has recently held solo and group exhibitions at venues including Sharp Projects (Copenhagen, DK), All all all, (Copenhagen; DK), Galleri Susanne Ottesen (Copenhagen; DK), and KØS Museum for kunst i det offentlige rum (Køge; DK). In 2023 she received the Anne Marie Carl Nielsen’s talent prize for sculptors.

Julie Falk is represented by Sharp Projects.

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