Who is calling the sharks?

Generations

"Crime und Traum" is a nocturnal, disconnected walkabout. A thriller in love with ambiguous images, between romance and violence. 

Taken with a smartphone in forbidden places, these photographs are then edited, processed in negative and then developed in cyanotype. Once this slow process is complete, they are then digitized and reinterpreted in an experimental video.
A four-handed project in which the two lovers plunge back into a romantic and tumultuous trip, together they create a fiction. Each one uses her own medium : Julia Castel is an analog photographer, Charlene Levasseur a video artist. 


Crime und Traum

Echoes of the Ocean

Freeing the Soul

Heard it through the grapevine

Granada

Drown out the Noise

Stoic Resolve

Turquoise Rain

Nebula I

Behind the Meaning: In the delicate petals of the white lily, I found a powerful symbol of purity and fertility. Yet, beneath this outward elegance lies a profound truth - struggles that female humans face in a world filled with societal pressures and entrenched gender norms. 

This artwork is more than just a visual delight; it symbolises the hidden challenges they navigate daily. In a society that often keeps mental health battles concealed, "Silent Battles" dares to illuminate the shadows, encouraging us all to shatter outdated norms and embrace change.

Silent Battles no. 06

Silent Battles no. 05

Silent Battles no. 04

Silent Battles no. 03

In the delicate petals of the white lily, I found a powerful symbol of purity and fertility. Yet, beneath this outward elegance lies a profound truth - struggles that female humans face in a world filled with societal pressures and entrenched gender norms. 

This artwork is more than just a visual delight; it symbolises the hidden challenges they navigate daily. In a society that often keeps mental health battles concealed, "Silent Battles" dares to illuminate the shadows, encouraging us all to shatter outdated norms and embrace change.

Silent Battles no. 01 

Apis Mellifera

Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow

Neck board for shrews

Injured Pigeon 

Post-mortem butt plug 

I see red 

White veil

The last butt plug

Hermaphrodite 

Body studies

The dream of last night 

Berries

Crystal tree

Clamped in the double fiddle, they stood opposite and had to look each other in the eye constantly during the punishment. The performance talks about moving away and finding each other again. Every act of pushing away is simultaneously the hold that helps the person pushed away not to get off balance. Because when one person falls, they both fall.

Who is calling the sharks

Not Albe t odo anything & Still not able to do anything

movement

glow?

blue

untitled

In everyday life, expectation never captures reality. It is often a beautiful vision and becomes an impossible burden. Socialization is such a funny thing. So it happens that common weaknesses bring us apart. We need to know which one is infallible. If I am not one, do I have to be the other? Someone must make sense of it if the other person loses their mind. A balancing act calls for coexistence at eye level. One carries the other and vice versa. Far from violence and power, an ethic is developing that embraces both. Inequality is an ideological catastrophe because I recognize myself in the reflection of your eyes. You carry me, so I do you. Finding the right path in avoiding steps, we used to dance before. It is not the same old song with unspoken words.

The balance between us

YM is a series of portraits of people she's met in the last few years. Over time, it has become a process of observing the change of the outside and inside. It is a process of creating and re-interpretation an environment across looks, movements, knowledge and thoughts expressed in colour and form.

In this series, she works visually on the confluence of movement that implies the change of people in cities, through a creative process—observing the visual stimulation of the contextual environment, the relationship with the people around it and the coexistence with artificial elements. 

The works follow models of repetition to construct and deconstruct. Each piece is based on the overlapping of layers; a collection of information and elements that coexist both in time and space.

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PaLau

Expanded Spaces

Futsch & Fort - Wo geht´s bitte zu den Wolken?

holly  - life of a star (in some chapters) 

Mixed media fluid art, stylized with gemstones etc and neon paints which then creates a glow effect when placed directly under a UV light.

Empyrean 

Solace

Epiphany 

Mixed media fluid art, stylized with gemstones etc and using neon paints which then creates a glow effect when placed directly under UV light.

Reckoning 

Mixed media fluid art, stylized with gemstones etc and using neon paints which then creates a glow effect when placed directly under UV light. 

Elixir

Mixed media, fluid art stylized with gemstones etc and using neon paints that create a glow effect when placed directly under UV light. 

Revelation 

Nightmare

Between the dreams

Guest

"Vision Disorders" is a series of paintings that are inconsistent in content, bordering on figuration and abstraction. These are afterimages of mass culture combined with a subjective view of the surrounding reality. Throughout the canvas, I explore the relationship between the trash aesthetics of the ignorant style movement and the icandy, that is, the friendly "I want to please" movement.

Cybermouses

No title

Family

Women

Jaws

Horse

Paradiso

Moons

JO-RE

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Door

szhw

064Winter

Movement21

IN SEARCH FOR LIGHT

The space landscape #1

These works reflect my philosophy of upbringing and parenting. The main idea of which is: to try not to dictate my tastes and views to the child. The privilege of an adult in relation to a child is an opportunity or even an obligation to make choices for the child. Even in such a subject as a child’s drawing. My task is to follow the child in her decisions and take it seriously.

I am going to produce a series of joint drawings with my daughter. We will exchange the usual roles (for an adult – child relationship). The adult will copy the child’s drawings. Children’s drawings born of the unconscious are full of freedom, variety and true abstraction, they are free from cultural codes and images.What my daughter will draw with a brush and paint, I will repeat in a dry, meticulous and adult technique – I will outline her work with ink using tracing paper. I will learn by little bits what was done in one breath. My work embodies the typical behavior of an adult, attentive and studying, organizing, sorting out bits and pieces and thinking about every detail. These drawings are like X-rays, reflecting the internal structure, movements, layers. Things that are usually invisible in painting.

Daughter's works:
A3 (420 x 297 mm)
gouaches on paper
2017 - 2020
My works:
A3 (420 x 297 mm)
digital print
2021

Parenting

What is space?
Does it exist without its boundaries?
And do the boundaries define the space?

40 x 51 cm
gypsum
2021

What is space?

Multitasking is the forced need to do everything at once, to try yourself on several roles, to be in different places at the same time, to communicate with those who are here and those who are there. Multitasking is something that deprives you of the present, prevents you from concentrating, focusing, paying attention to someone who is dear to you.
Multitasking is an easy and insidious way to avoid the necessity to make a choice.

63 x 63 x 4 cm, 12.2 kg
plywood, gypsum, plaster, paint
2021

Multitasking organ

The collision of rigid structure and free, smooth line.

45 x 45 cm
plywood, plaster, paint
2021
edition - 10 pieces

Untitled 4

Working with repeatable elements, the main role is played by the ratio and proportions and the general order of the organization. Deviations from the rules are particularly important. The elements, which are out of order, draw attention to themselves and organize the composition. While the repeated elements become an invisible background, which seems to be insignificant. But the background allows the elements that fall out of the system to exist.

63 x 118 cm
plywood, cement mortar
2020


Untitled 3

Growth and rebirth are always contained losses. The bark pieces fall off, allowing the tree to expand. Each line in this natural form is a compromise, a border between one part and another. Some fragments are large, others are smaller. Some are torn off by the wind when they barely hold on, others appear under new layers.

76 x 50 cm
plywood, plaster, paint
2020

Growth

There are structure and order - a certain logic. They are not completely perfect, they have a few knocks, they adapt. On top of this organizing structure, emotions are placed - live, inexplicable, uncontrolled. It is the layer of feelings and experiences that becomes the most tangible and vivid in life, it plays the most important role and gives life beauty and value.

76 x 76 cm
plywood, reinforce mesh, cement mortar, plaster, paint
2020

Untitled 2

16"x21", colored pencil, crayon, and china marker on paper, 2021

Weeds

Grass

Mud Gusher

Meadow

Swimmer

Fall Leaves

Size: approx.400mm x400mm

Medium: Acrylic paint and modelling paste on canvas

Year: 2021

'Sculptural Hatching' is an ongoing series of acrylic and mixed media paintings investigating the intermediate state between drawing, painting and sculpture. Originated during the lockdown 2020 as an attempt of meditation and a calming down technique, the series explores lines and hatching patterns on a sculptural level. 

During the turbulent pandemic times, the monotonous act of layering modelling paste with a piping bag converted to an act of healing and reflection. The repetitive movements helped me to dissect everyday experience, as well as my thoughts and feelings, without being overwhelmed. The result is a series of painting with distinct surface and textures often reflecting my subconscious mind.


Sculptural Hatching no.9

Size: approx.400mm x400mm

Medium: Acrylic paint and modelling paste on canvas

Year: 2020

‘Sculptural Hatching’ is an ongoing series of acrylic and mixed media paintings. Originated in 2020 lockdown as an attempt of meditation, the series explores lines and patterns on a sculptural level by using layers of filler paste.

Sculptural Hatching no.8

Size: 400mm x 200mm

Medium: Acrylic paint, modelling paste, clay on canvas

Year: 2020

'Sculptural Hatching' is an ongoing series of acrylic and mixed media paintings investigating the intermediate state between drawing, painting and sculpture. Originated during the lockdown 2020 as an attempt of meditation and a calming down technique, the series explores lines and hatching patterns on a sculptural level. 
During the turbulent pandemic times, the monotonous act of layering modelling paste with a piping bag converted to an act of healing and reflection. The repetitive movements helped me to dissect everyday experience, as well as my thoughts and feelings, without being overwhelmed. The result is a series of painting with distinct surface and textures often reflecting my subconscious mind.

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