Julie Wittrup: Material Memory Without Nostalgia
When fragments begin to behave like bodies
Julie Wittrup – Textile & Ceramic Practice
Julie Wittrup belongs to a generation of artists returning to material intelligence without romanticizing craft. Working between textile and ceramic fragments, her practice treats surfaces as sites where personal iconography and tactile memory intersect.
Across knitted structures, stitched reliefs and clay elements, Wittrup assembles figures that feel both intimate and slightly estranged. Motifs borrowed from tattoo culture, bodily symbolism and folk-like imagery appear repeatedly.
Rather than narrating identity, these fragments accumulate into a system of signs that hover between decoration, protection and exposure.
Echo, her first solo exhibition at HAGD Contemporary, presents these works within a raw architectural environment where walls, textures and materials resonate with the works themselves. The pieces do not dominate the space. Instead, they punctuate it quietly, forming a constellation of tactile signals that register presence, repetition and transformation.
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Works and Exhibition Views
Julie Wittrup in her solo exhibition "Echo" at HAGD Contemporary. Image courtesy of the artist.
Exhibition view of "Echo", Julie Wittrup at HAGD Contemporary, curated by Rasmus Peter Fischer. Image courtesy of the artist.
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