Julia Bondesson – Cradle my bones

Julia Bondesson combines aesthetics with psychology in her works. Gently, they take possession of the room, like entities seemingly at rest. Bondesson explores the symbiosis between body and soul.

Her inspirations include Chinese philosophy and embodied cognition, where development is furthered through active cooperation between the senses and the physical body. With intuitive, performative works, the artist takes an animistic approach, blurring the boundary between object and subject.

Bondesson refers to the performative action and her collaboration with the sculptures as a dance that gives rise to an intimate and emotional relationship between them. The sculptures become ambivalent characters – both objects and living beings – vessels travelling between the static and active states.

More info: www.modernamuseet.se/malmo/en/exhibitions/julia-bondesson-cradle-my-bones/

Picture: Julia Bondesson, Keep You in the Back of My Mind, 2015, Photo: Alexander Wireen