Artist Statement

Artist Introduction

Julia Winter is a Dutch artist in Singapore, with a long international career and multitude of group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Her work is a unique and individualistic visual vocabulary, creating a poetic and imaginative body of work. Winter’s art blends and juxtaposes differences, such as male-female, past-present, and guilt-innocence. She explores the transformative influence of time and awakening the past through fragments of memory. Winter’s work merges two personalities from different worlds, reflecting her theme of contrasting opposites. Winter is at the forefront of a new wave in art, having fresh perspective and mode of thought. She achieves this by seamlessly incorporating multimedia into her artistic expressions, making her a pivotal figure in the new edge.

I seek the combination of differences, contrasts such as male-female, past-present, guilt-innocence and melt them together into a new poetic and sometimes political reality. Through this transformation, I would like to showcase the influence of time and how it constantly changes our perception. The past is reawakened in a reconstruction of shards or with fragments of memories. These memories transform us and our futures. At a time when emigration has become a common phenomenon, we have to accept an ongoing negotiation and exchange between irreconcilable differences. In the media, we see a huge number of different faces. In our cities, we experience new national and ethnic mixtures.